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Definition: Dishevelled |
DishevelledAdjective1. 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 "dishevelled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Russian (vzdrochennyi ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DishevelledSynonyms: disheveled (adj), frowzled (adj), rumpled (adj), tousled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dishevelled |
| Specialty definitions using "dishevelled": Phryne. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dishevelled": Dishevel. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All is dishevelled, the star as well as the drama |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Dishevelled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 60.20% of the time. "Dishevelled" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 60.2% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35.71% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.08% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
dishevelled | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dishevelled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të shpupurisur (disheveled), të shprishur (disheveled), i rrëmujshëm (disheveled, disorderly, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, pell mell, rambunctious, rampageous, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), e çrregullt (disheveled). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير مرتب (disheveled, messy, out of order, scrubby, untidiness, untidy), أشعث (blowzy, disheveled, frowzy, ragged, shaggy, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разрошен (wild), раздърпан (tacky, tatty). (various references) | |
Czech | rozcuchaný (disheveled, straggly, unkempt, unruly, untidy, wind swept). (various references) | |
Finnish | pörröinen (ruffled up, rumpled, shaggy, tousled). (various references) | |
French | en désordre (disarray, disorderly), ébouriffé. (various references) | |
Greek | με ακτένιστα μαλλιά, αναμαλλιασμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פרוע שער (shaggy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kócos (blowzy, disheveled, ruffled, rumpled, shock). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tidak rapi, terurai, acak-acakan (in disorder). (various references) | |
Italian | scarmigliato (disheveled, ruffled, unkempt), scapigliato (disheveled, dissolute), arruffato (disheveled, ruffled, shaggy, tousles). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | もじゃもじゃ (shaggy, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Manx | neuskiogh, fud y cheilley (at variance, chaotic, confused, confusing, confusion, disorder, disordered, embarrassed, flustered, mixed up, muddle, muddled, perplexed, tangled, topsy-turvy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ishevelledday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | despenteado (blowzy, disheveled, unkempt), desgrenhado (disheveled, shaggy). (various references) | |
Romanian | dezordonat (disorderly, erratic, ill-regulated, irregular, messy, riotous, slipshod, unkempt, untidy), despletit, zbârlit (bristly, fluffy, fuzzy, horrent, tousled), vâlvoi, nepieptãnat (shaggy, uncombed), lãţos (tousled, unkempt), ciufulit (blowzy, fluffy, ruffled, rumpled, tousled, unkempt), burzuluit (angry), buhos (hirsute, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Russian | растрепанный (bedraggled, disheveled, uncombed), взъерошенный (disheveled, scraggly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razbarušen (blowzy, disheveled, ruffle up, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Spanish | despeinado (disheveled, rough, tousled, windswept), desmelenado (disheveled), desgreñado (disheveled, shaggy, shock-headed, unkempt), desaliñado (blowzy, disheveled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, frowzy, frumpish, messy, neglected, scruffy, slovenly, tacky, unkempt, untidy), greñudo (disheveled, tangled). (various references) | |
Swedish | rufsig (blowzy, tousled). (various references) | |
Turkish | darmadağınık (all in a tumble, cock-a-hoop, disheveled, snafu, windswept), karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, confused, disheveled, 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) | |
Ukrainian | розпатланий (disheveled), неакуратний (careless, disheveled, inexact, slipshod). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đầu tóc rối bời rối bời. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-h-i-l-l-s-v" | |
-1 letter: disheveled. | |
-3 letters: devilled, dieseled, dishevel, shielded. | |
-4 letters: dellies, develed, deviled, devised, devisee, heddles, leveled, shelled, shelved, shilled, sleeved. | |
-5 letters: delved, delves, devels, devils, devise, diesel, dilled, dished, eddies, ediles, elided, elides, elvish, heddle, heeded, heeled, heiled, helled, helved, helves, hilled, leveed, levees, levels, levied, levies, sedile, seeded, seeled, seidel, sheeve, shelve, shield, sidled, sieved. | |
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