tousled

«tousled» in Mova's school dictionary: Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (tousled); from the verb tousle (tousle, tousles, tousled, tousling)

meaning for a pupil

Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks as if you have just woken up. tree →

sense in the lessons

A describing word for appearance in stories: a child with tousled hair just out of bed, a boy tousled by the wind. Grown-ups sometimes tousle a child's hair as a kind gesture.

examples

• He came down to breakfast with tousled hair. tree →
• The wind left her hair tousled. tree →
• Dad tousled my hair and smiled. tree →
• A tousled puppy jumped out of the box. tree →
• She looked tousled after the long trip. tree →
• His tousled curls stuck out everywhere. tree →

note

Mostly used about hair. Say TOW-zuld: the first part sounds like «cow». Similar: messy, ruffled, untidy.

In the corpora

• Badger arrives muddy and «rough and touzled» (untidy, tousled); «Welcome home, Toad!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tousled» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.