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- Dictionarytousled/ˈtaʊzld/
adjective
- 1. (of hair) untidy: "she wore her hair in tousled curls"
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having hair that looks untidy, as if it has been rubbed: Naomi stood in front of them, her face flushed, her hair tousled. He came to breakfast, all tousled, in last night's clothes. Synonym. dishevelled mainly UK. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Dirty & untidy. all over the place idiom. Augean. besmeared. bespattered. bloodied.
to make someone's hair untidy, for example by rubbing it, or, of the wind, by blowing it: She tousled her niece's hair, and went out. The wind tousled their hair. Fewer examples. He tousled her hair in passing. His hair had been tousled by the wind and stuck up comically to one side.
Tousle is a word that has been through what linguists call a " functional shift ." That's a fancy way of saying it was originally one part of speech, then gradually came to have an additional function.
to make someone's hair messy, for example by rubbing it, or, of the wind, by blowing it: She tousled her niece's hair, and went out. The wind tousled their hair. Fewer examples. He tousled her hair in passing. His hair had been tousled by the wind and stuck up comically to one side.
tousled. Anything that's tousled is rumpled or disheveled, like your tousled hair when you first get out of bed in the morning. The adjective tousled can be used for anything that's untidy, but you'll usually see it describing a head of hair. Tousled hair is messy, windblown, or otherwise unkempt.
adjective. If you have tousled hair, it is untidy and looks as if it has not been brushed or combed. He invariably dressed in crumpled clothes and his thatch of blond hair was often tousled. Synonyms: dishevelled, disordered, tangled, ruffled More Synonyms of tousled. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Tousled definition: disordered or disheveled. See examples of TOUSLED used in a sentence.
Definition of 'tousle' Word Frequency. tousle in British English. (ˈtaʊzəl ) verb (transitive) 1. to tangle, ruffle, or disarrange. 2. to treat roughly. noun. 3. a disorderly, tangled, or rumpled state. 4. a dishevelled or disordered mass, esp of hair. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin.
Definition of tousled adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
To tousle is to mess up. The disadvantage of riding in a flashy red convertible is that the wind might tousle your careful hairdo. This old verb with a solid English pedigree has earned the right to only a part-time job after its 600 years of service to the language.
