bed-headed

Pillow-mussed locks visible

Bed-headed describes hair that's disheveled from sleep—sticking up, flattened on one side, or otherwise uncombed: She stumbled into the kitchen, still bed-headed and barely awake.

The term extends to the person with such hair: a bed-headed teenager at the breakfast table.

appearance

disheveled

Untidy in appearance

mussed · tangled · matted · frizzy · uncombed · scruffy · raggedy · windswept · haystack · nest

morning

sleepy

Wanting to doze

half-asleep · yawning · unrested · sluggish · zombie-like · stumbling · disoriented · sunrise · bedside · shuffling

Opposites
hair grooming state

bed-headedwell-groomed

Neat and tidy

coiffed · polished · sleek · kempt · slicked-back

Family

bed, head, headed, beds, heads, bedded, bedding, heading, headings

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G