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Definition: Disheveled |
DisheveledAdjective1. In disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disheveled" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: DisheveledSynonyms: dishevelled (adj), frowzled (adj), rumpled (adj), tousled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined; |
Nonassemblage Dispersion | Adjective: unassembled; (see assemble; ); dispersed; Verb: sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic; (general); adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disheveled |
| English words defined with "disheveled": Dischevele, Dishevele. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disheveled": Dishevele. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Arthur glanced around him once more, and then down at himself, at the sweaty disheveled clothes he had been lying in the mud in on Thursday morning |
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Expression using "disheveled": become disheveled. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disheveled | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "disheveled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të shpupurisur (dishevelled), të shprishur (dishevelled), i rrëmujshëm (dishevelled, disorderly, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, pell mell, rambunctious, rampageous, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), e çrregullt (dishevelled). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير مرتب (dishevelled, messy, out of order, scrubby, untidiness, untidy), أشعث (blowzy, dishevelled, frowzy, ragged, shaggy, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разчорлен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鬅 , " . (various references) | |
Czech | rozcuchaný (dishevelled, straggly, unkempt, unruly, untidy, wind swept). (various references) | |
Farsi | پریشان (Disconsolate, Faraway, Heartsick), نامرتب (Irregular, Sloppy, Slovenly, Unequal, Unkempt, Untidy), ژولیده (Draggy, Ragamuffin, Slovenly, Uncouth, Unkempt), اشفته (Berserk, Messy, Phrenetic, Turbulent, Upset). (various references) | |
French | échevelée. (various references) | |
German | zerzauste (tousles). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kócos (blowzy, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, shock). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lecek (locks, worn (of latches). (various references) | |
Italian | scarmigliato (dishevelled, ruffled, unkempt), scapigliato (dishevelled, dissolute), arruffato (dishevelled, ruffled, shaggy, tousles). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ぎゅう詰め (at the last moment, being startled, crumpled, dazzle, feel gloomy, feeling depressed, glare, glitter, hard, jammed, just barely, mimesis, mimicry, packed like sardines, snoringly, tight), もぎ取る (bushy, hello, if so, in that case, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, to be torn off, to break or tear off, to come off, to pick, to pluck off, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くしゃくしゃ (crumpled, feel gloomy), もしゃもしゃ (bushy, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isheveledday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | despenteado (blowzy, dishevelled, unkempt), desgrenhado (dishevelled, shaggy). (various references) | |
Russian | растрепанный (bedraggled, dishevelled, uncombed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uneređen, razbarušen (blowzy, dishevelled, ruffle up, tousled, unkempt), raspojasan (licentious). (various references) | |
Spanish | despeinado (dishevelled, rough, tousled, windswept), desmelenado (dishevelled), desgreñado (dishevelled, shaggy, shock-headed, unkempt), desaliñado (blowzy, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, frowzy, frumpish, messy, neglected, scruffy, slovenly, tacky, unkempt, untidy), greñudo (dishevelled, tangled). (various references) | |
Turkish | darmadağınık (all in a tumble, cock-a-hoop, dishevelled, snafu, windswept), karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, confused, dishevelled, embroiled, haywire, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, mess, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu). (various references) | |
Turkmen | imeюik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпатланий (dishevelled), неакуратний (careless, dishevelled, inexact, slipshod). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | capillus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Disheveled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desheveled, deshevelled, disheveld, disheveted, dishevled, dishevlled, dissheveled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disheveled" (pronounced di'she"vuld) |
| 5 | -e" v u l d | bedeviled, bevelled, leveled, levelled, reveled. |
| 4 | -v u l d | marveled, raveled, rivaled, shoveled, shriveled, traveled, travelled, unraveled, unrivaled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, libeled, disgruntled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, riddled, rifled, rippled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-h-i-l-s-v" | |
-2 letters: dieseled, dishevel, shielded. | |
-3 letters: develed, deviled, devised, devisee, heddles, shelved, sleeved. | |
-4 letters: delved, delves, devels, devils, devise, diesel, dished, eddies, ediles, elided, elides, elvish, heddle, heeded, heeled, heiled, helved, helves, leveed, levees, levied, levies, sedile, seeded, seeled, seidel, sheeve, shelve, shield, sidled, sieved, sleeve, veiled, viseed. | |
-5 letters: deeds, deils, deled, deles, delis, delve, devel. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-e-h-i-l-s-v" | |
+1 letter: dishevelled. | |
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