TOUSLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tousled mean? 

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

1. in disarray; extremely disorderly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUSLED (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 

Then, as if reproaching himself for the longing that he could not repress, he went and kissed the two tousled heads upon the pillow, took down his seldom-used meerschaum, and opened his Plato.

(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)