disheveling
Making hair messy
Disheveling is making something untidy or disordered, especially hair or clothing.
The word suggests a loosening of what was once neat or composed: The wind kept disheveling her carefully arranged hair.
Someone disheveled looks rumpled, as if they've slept in their clothes or haven't bothered with grooming.
Crinkled from neglect
- unkemptUntidy in appearance
- tousledDisordered, especially hair
- mussedMade untidy
- windblownDisplaced by gusts
bedraggled · frowzy · uncombed · disarranged · windswept · bedhead · straggly · messy
Disrupting a smooth surface
- touslingDisordering hair playfully
- mussingMaking disorderly
- tanglingIntertwining into disorder
- rumplingCreating wrinkles by handling
disturbing · disarranging · unsettling · scrambling · disrupting · agitating · disordering · muddling
rumpled
Crinkled from neglect
windblown · bedraggled · frowzy · uncombed · disarranged · windswept · bedhead · straggly · messy · scruffy
ruffling
Disrupting a smooth surface
rumpling · disturbing · disarranging · unsettling · scrambling · disrupting · agitating · disordering · muddling · jumbling
wrinkled
Having surface folds
frayed · creased · untucked · unbuttoned · loosened · askew · bunched · twisted · ruffled · pulled
- muddlingmuddling, jumbling, scrambling, mixing up, disarranging
- dirtyingsoiling, dirtying, staining, smearing, smudging
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