rumples

Creates untidy wrinkles

Rumples is the third-person singular of rumple, meaning to wrinkle, crease, or make untidy.

Fabric rumples when crushed; hair rumples when slept on.

The word suggests minor, casual disorder rather than serious damage: She rumples his hair affectionately.

What rumples easily loses its crisp, smooth appearance.

creases

wrinkles

Surface lines from folding

puckers · furrows · corrugations · ridges · crimps · pleats · gatherings · tucks · bunches · rucks

dishevels

musses

Disarranges, makes untidy

disarranges · messes · tumbles · scrambles · tosses · ruffles · snarls · knots · jumbles · flusters

Categories
Opposites
surface texture/smoothness

rumplessmooths

Eliminates roughness or wrinkles

irons · presses · flattens · straightens · unwrinkles

order/neatness

rumplesneatens

Makes orderly

tidies · arranges · grooms · straightens · smooths

Family

rumpled, rumple, rumply, rumpling

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G