disheveled


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di·shev·eled

or di·shev·elled  (dĭ-shĕv′əld)
adj.
1. Being in loose disarray; unkempt, as hair or clothing.
2. Marked by disorder; untidy: a disheveled pile of books on the library table.

[Middle English discheveled, from Old French deschevele, past participle of descheveler, to disarrange the hair : des-, apart; see dis- + chevel, hair (from Latin capillus).]
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di•shev•eled

(dɪˈʃɛv əld)

adj.
unkempt; untidy; disarranged.
Also, esp. Brit.,di•shev′elled.
[1375–1425; late Middle English discheveled < Old French deschevele, past participle of descheveler to dishevel the hair]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.disheveled - in disarraydisheveled - in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
untidy - not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
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disheveled

adjective
Marked by an absence of cleanliness and order:
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Translations
شَعِثُ الشَّعْر، غَيْر مُرَتَّب الثِّياب
úfinn; ósnyrtilegur
izspūrissapinkojies

dishevelled,

disheveled

(diʃevəld) adjective
untidy. She had been gardening and looked rather dishevelled.
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References in classic literature ?
Milady, who had arisen, threw herself quickly into the armchair, her head thrown back, her beautiful hair unbound and disheveled, her bosom half bare beneath her crumpled lace, one hand on her heart, and the other hanging down.
"So," replied De Winter, laughing, "that beautiful hair so skillfully disheveled, that white skin, and that languishing look, have not yet seduced you, you heart of stone?"
Yes, yes; I think a little dirty man with a disheveled beard was stooping down doing something, and all of a sudden he began saying some strange words in French.
When he saw the first hussar with the unbuttoned uniform of his regiment, when he recognized red-haired Dementyev and saw the picket ropes of the roan horses, when Lavrushka gleefully shouted to his master, "The count has come!" and Denisov, who had been asleep on his bed, ran all disheveled out of the mud hut to embrace him, and the officers collected round to greet the new arrival, Rostov experienced the same feeling his mother, his father, and his sister had embraced him, and tears of joy choked him so that he could not speak.
There was a flash of the great sword as the outlaw swung it to the full of his mighty strength through an arc that passed above the shoulders of Peter of Colfax, and the grinning head rolled upon the floor, while the loathsome carcass, that had been a baron of England, sunk in a disheveled heap among the rushes of the great hall of the castle of Leybourn.
"Pretty mess, what?" he remarked with a wry smile, indicating his bloody and disheveled state.
She was a brave figure; even her soiled and torn riding togs and disheveled hair detracted nothing from her appearance.
It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.
It seemed unbelievable that such could be the case, and yet, too, it seemed almost equally unbelievable that this beautiful girl was the same disheveled, half naked, little sprite who skipped nimbly among the branches of the trees as they ran and played in the lazy, happy days of the past.
Funded by the Korean Ministry of Science, a team led by professor Choi Kang-yell has come up with a protein called CXXC-type zinc finger protein 5, which can bind the disheveled protein that triggers hair loss.
Conversation pieces for disheveled patrons of local bars, these
The younger disheveled fellow manages to warm the chicken kebabs in a microwave oven as an alternative to playing a video game because the elder equally disheveled brother has hidden the joystick.