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- Dictionarytousled/ˈtaʊzld/
adjective
- 1. (of hair) untidy: "she wore her hair in tousled curls"
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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.
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.
Tousled definition: disordered or disheveled. See examples of TOUSLED used in a sentence.
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.
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. 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.
