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What is the adjective for disheveled?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb dishevel which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dishevelled
  1. (of a person) With the hair uncombed.
  2. (by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. slovenly, unkempt, scruffy, untidy, daggy, shaggy, frowzy, messy, ragged, scraggly, shabby, sloppy, ungroomed, bedraggled, blowsy, dirty, disheveled, draggletailed, sleazy, tangled, blowzy, knotted, knotty, matted, ruffled, slatternly, tangly, uncombed, wrinkled, ill-groomed, badly groomed, worse for wear, ill-clad, badly dressed, poorly dressed, inappropriately dressed, draggle-tailed, hanging loose, tousled, dowdy, rumpled, slobbish, slobby, sloven, frowsy, mussed, disordered, ratty, grubby, raggedy … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Collum, who had as of late been pathologically tardy, arrived last, his hair dishevelled, but his suit in irreproachable order.”
      “In his wake, he'd left a dishevelled mess of insurance forms and probate paperwork for Gray to clean up.”
      “He lived in the back of a dishevelled old house on a mean little back street in the market.”
disheveled
  1. Alternative form of dishevelled
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slovenly, unkempt, dishevelled, scruffy, untidy, daggy, shaggy, frowzy, messy, ragged, scraggly, shabby, sloppy, ungroomed, bedraggled, blowsy, dirty, draggletailed, sleazy, tangled, blowzy, knotted, knotty, matted, ruffled, slatternly, tangly, uncombed, wrinkled, ill-groomed, badly groomed, worse for wear, ill-clad, badly dressed, poorly dressed, inappropriately dressed, draggle-tailed, hanging loose, tousled, dowdy, rumpled, slobbish, slobby, sloven, frowsy, mussed, disordered, grubby, ratty, raggedy … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Collum, who had as of late been pathologically tardy, arrived last, his hair disheveled, but his suit in irreproachable order.”
      “In his wake, he'd left a disheveled mess of insurance forms and probate paperwork for Gray to clean up.”
      “He lived in the back of a disheveled old house on a mean little back street in the market.”
dishevele
  1. (obsolete) dishevelled
disheveling
  1. present participle of dishevel
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disordering, disarranging, disorganizing, confusing, disturbing, jumbling, discomposing, muddling, disarraying, upsetting, disrupting, tousling, mussing, rumpling, deranging, shuffling, scrambling, dislocating, disjointing, hashing, tumbling, messing up, mixing up, unsettling, cluttering, ruffling, throwing into disorder, making untidy, making a mess of, mussing up, rummaging, turning upside down, spoiling, confounding, scattering, throwing into confusion, tangling, messing, throwing into disarray, agitating, mixing, making a shambles of, jumbling up, convulsing, perturbing, entangling, getting out of order, discombobulating, turning topsy-turvy, fouling up … more
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