You can even describe a person as looking rumpled, if they seem generally messy and bedraggled. The adjective rumpled comes from the verb rumple, which is most likely a variation on the now-obsolete rimple, "to wrinkle."
How do you use rumpled in a sentence?
in disarray; extremely disorderly.
- I arrived bleary-eyed and rumpled.
- The wind rumpled her lovely hair.
- The bed was rumpled where he had slept.
- He rumpled her hair playfully.
- He was casually dressed and had a rumpled look.
- She rumpled his hair playfully.
- A rumpled bed is wedged behind the seats.
What is a tousle mean?
Meaning of tousle in English
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.
