RUMPLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rumpled mean? 

• RUMPLED (adjective)
  The adjective RUMPLED has 1 sense:

1. in disarray; extremely disorderly

  Familiarity information: RUMPLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUMPLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In disarray; extremely disorderly

Synonyms:

disheveled; dishevelled; frowzled; rumpled; tousled

Context example:

his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly

Similar:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

 Context examples 

Well, sir, it was a bit rumpled, certainly, when I came back.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that," said Jo rather ungratefully.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Come, she went on, springing to her feet, and smoothing down her rumpled frock, let us walk through the shaw together, and we may come upon Bertrand with the horses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tea table was ready, and our little locker was put out in its old place, but instead of coming to sit by me, she went and bestowed her company upon that grumbling Mrs. Gummidge: and on Mr. Peggotty's inquiring why, rumpled her hair all over her face to hide it, and could do nothing but laugh.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Ah, Colonel!” said Holmes, arranging his rumpled collar.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The children were inconsolable, and Mr. Bhaer's hair stuck straight up all over his head, for he always rumpled it wildly when disturbed in mind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar (as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times, shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped his ears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwise tousled and maltreated him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I soon saw that the intruder had left other traces of his presence besides the rumpled papers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His bushy hair had been cut and smoothly brushed, but didn't stay in order long, for in exciting moments, he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because she thought it gave his fine forehead a Jove-like aspect.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)