dishevelling
Making hair messy
Dishevelling is making hair or clothing untidy and disordered.
The word suggests a tousled, rumpled appearance—wind dishevelling hair, sleep dishevelling bedclothes.
It can extend to disrupting anything that was neat or orderly: The news dishevelled his carefully composed demeanor.
Also spelled disheveling.
Disordering hair playfully
- tanglingIntertwining into disorder
- mussingMaking disorderly
- rufflingDisrupting a smooth surface
- mattingWoven protective surface
knotting · windswept · bedhead · unkempt · uncombed · frizzing · snarling · ratting
Creating wrinkles by handling
- wrinklingForming small folds
- crumplingCrushing into folds
- creasingCreating fold marks
- untuckingRemoving from confinement
disarranging · mussing · disordering · ruffling · askew · crooked · twisted · bunched
Lack of order
- disorderAbsence of organization
- untidinessLack of order
- messinessState of disarray
- sloppinessLack of neatness
unkemptness · scruffiness · raggedness · bedraggled · careless · neglected · shabby · slovenly
tousling
Disordering hair playfully
matting · knotting · windswept · bedhead · unkempt · uncombed · frizzing · snarling · ratting · teasing
rumpling
Creating wrinkles by handling
untucking · disarranging · mussing · disordering · ruffling · askew · crooked · twisted · bunched · wrinkled
disarray
Lack of order
- disorderAbsence of organization
- untidinessLack of order
- messinessState of disarray
sloppiness · unkemptness · scruffiness · raggedness · bedraggled · careless · neglected · shabby · slovenly · frumpy