Usually means: Untidy in appearance or dress.
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  1. dishevelled: Merriam-Webster
  2. dishevelled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dishevelled: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dishevelled: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dishevelled, dishevelled: Wordnik
  6. dishevelled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dishevelled: Wiktionary
  8. Dishevelled, dishevelled: Dictionary.com
  9. Dishevelled: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dishevelled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dishevelled: Rhymezone
  12. dishevelled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. dishevelled: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dishevelled: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. dishevelled: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. dishevelled: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dishevelled: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (of a person) With the hair uncombed.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.

Similar:
untidy, frowzled, tousled, rumpled, wild, tousle-haired, tousle-headed, scruffy, uproarious, ill-groomed, more...

Opposite:
tidy, neat, kempt

Adjectives:
little, much, draggled, long, hair

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Similar:
untidy, frowzled, tousled, rumpled, wild, tousle-haired, tousle-headed, scruffy, uproarious, ill-groomed, more...

Opposite:
tidy, neat, kempt

Adjectives:
little, much, draggled, long, hair



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