English
Etymology
From earlier dishevely, from Old French deschevelé (modern French déchevelé and échevelé), from des- (“dis-”), + chevel (“hair”) (modern French cheveu). See there for more details.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈʃɛvəld/, /dɪsˈʃɛvəld/
Adjective
dishevelled (comparative more dishevelled, superlative most dishevelled)
- (of a person) With the hair uncombed.
- Synonyms: messy, scraggly, tousled, unkempt, untidy
- (by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.
- Synonyms: untidy, slovenly
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
2018 August 31, Peter Bradshaw, “The Other Side of the Wind review – lost Orson Welles epic is hurricane of anger and wit”, in The Guardian[2]:This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium. I sometimes felt I was watching the 100-hour version.
Derived terms
Translations
uncombed
- Arabic: أَشْعَث m (ʔašʕaṯ)
- Bulgarian: разчорлен (bg) (razčorlen)
- Czech: neučesaný m, rozcuchaný m
- Finnish: epäsiisti (fi), sotkuinen (fi)
- French: ébouriffé (fr)
- Galician: espeluxado (gl)
- Georgian: დაუვარცხნელი (dauvarcxneli)
- German: ungekämmt (de), struppig (de), zerzaust (de)
- Hungarian: kócos (hu)
- Italian: spettinato (it)
- Maori: tīwanawana, hūtoi, hūtoitoi, pōtihitihi, poutihitihi, hīwanawana, puhirua, tūheihei, tūkirakira, tūtiratira, kōritorito
- Old English: tōsprǣdd, *uncembed,
- Portuguese: desgrenhado (pt), despenteado (pt)
- Russian: непричёсанный (ru) (nepričósannyj)
- Sicilian: a l'ariò, a l'ària, a l'àriu
- Spanish: chascón (es), despeinado (es), desgreñado (es)
- Swedish: okammad (sv)
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untidy in appearance
- Bulgarian: размъкнат (bg) (razmǎknat)
- Czech: nedbalý m, zanedbaný (cs) m, neupravený m
- Finnish: epäsiisti (fi), sotkuinen (fi)
- Georgian: თმააბურძგნული (tmaaburʒgnuli), თმაგაბურძგნული (tmagaburʒgnuli), თავდაუვარცხნელი (tavdauvarcxneli), თავგაწეწილი (tavgac̣ec̣ili), თმაგაჩეჩილი (tmagačečili), თმაგაძეძილი (tmagaʒeʒili), აბურდული (aburduli), აჩეჩილი (ačečili), გაჩეჩილი (gačečili), აწეწილი (ac̣ec̣ili), აწეწილ-დაწეწილი (ac̣ec̣il-dac̣ec̣ili), აბურძგნული (aburʒgnuli), გაბურძგნული (gaburʒgnuli), დაუვარცხნელი (dauvarcxneli)
- German: unordentlich (de), ungepflegt (de) (rather negative), zerzaust (de) (hair), verwirrt (de) (hair)
- Greek: αχτένιστος (el) (achténistos)
- Ancient: ἀκτένιστος (akténistos)
- Hungarian: (hair) kócos (hu), (clothes) rendetlen (hu), zilált (hu)
- Irish: aimhréidh, ciafartach, foltscaoilte, gliobach
- Maori: puhirua, tūheihei, tūheihei, tīwanawana, hūtoi, hūtoitoi, uarapa, kōritorito
- Polish: (hair) rozczochrany (pl), (clothes) rozchełstany (pl)
- Portuguese: descabelado (pt), desgrenhado (pt)
- Russian: (hair) взъеро́шенный (ru) (vzʺjeróšennyj), (hair) нечёсаный (ru) (nečósanyj), всклоко́ченный (ru) (vsklokóčennyj)
- Sicilian: scunzatu m, scapiḍḍatu m
- Spanish: desaseado (es), descuidado (es), desordenado (es), desaliñado (es)
- Swedish: oborstad (sv)
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Verb
dishevelled
- simple past and past participle of dishevel