dishevel
Make hair messy
To dishevel is to make someone's hair or clothing untidy or disordered: The wind disheveled her carefully styled hair.
The word works backward from disheveled, which is far more common—we encounter the messy result more often than we witness the messing.
Someone disheveled looks rumpled, unkempt, as if they dressed in a hurry or slept in their clothes.
Pleated fabric edging
- tousleDisorder by rubbing
- mussTo disorder casually
- rumpleTo disorder by crushing
- disarrangeTo disturb order
disorder · mess-up · wind-blown · scramble · tumble · disturb · unsettle · tangle
Disordered, especially hair
- unkemptUntidy in appearance
- mussedMade untidy
- rumpledCrinkled from neglect
- bedraggledWet, dirty, untidy
scruffy · uncombed · windswept · tangled · matted · straggly · frowzy · raggedy
Nervously upset and confused
- frazzledMentally and physically depleted
- rattledDisturbed and unsettled
- unstrungDeprived of composure
- discomposedDisturbed from tranquility
agitated · unsettled · disconcerted · harried · frantic · overwrought · distressed · distraught
ruffle
Pleated fabric edging
disarrange · disorder · mess-up · wind-blown · scramble · tumble · disturb · unsettle · tangle
tousled
Disordered, especially hair
bedraggled · scruffy · uncombed · windswept · tangled · matted · straggly · frowzy · raggedy · messy
flustered
Nervously upset and confused
discomposed · agitated · unsettled · disconcerted · harried · frantic · overwrought · distressed · distraught · undone
- disruptdisrupt, disturb, upset, disorder, disorganize
disheveled, dishevelled, dishevelment, dishevels, disheveling, dishevelling