dishevelled

• disheveled

From earlier dishevely, from Old French deschevelé (modern French déchevelé and échevelé), from des- (“dis-”), + chevel (“hair”) (modern French cheveu).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈʃɛvəld/

dishevelled (comparative more dishevelled, superlative most dishevelled)

1. (of a person) With the hair uncombed.
2. (by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     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, […]

• messy, scraggly, tousled, unkempt, untidy

dishevelled

1. simple past tense and past participle of dishevel

• unkempt