dishevelled

comparative more dishevelled · superlative most dishevelled · alternative disheveled

1. Of a person, with the hair uncombed.

   Synonyms: messy, scraggly, tousled, unkempt, untidy

2. broadlyfigurativelyDisorderly or untidy in appearance.

   “Wild-eyed and disheveled, King Hrethel roamed every night through his throne room, which was empty and still.”

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 43

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   The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack utside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

   1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

   This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium. I sometimes felt I was watching the 100-hour version.

   2018 August 31, Peter Bradshaw, “The Other Side of the Wind review – lost Orson Welles epic is hurricane of anger and wit”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: untidy, slovenly

alternative disheveled

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of dishevel