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dishevelled

adjective
🔊/dɪˈʃevld/
🔊/dɪˈʃevld/
(especially British English)
(North American English usually disheveled)
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  1. (of hair, clothes or somebody’s general appearance头发、衣着或外表) very untidy凌乱的；不整洁的；衣冠不整的 synonym unkempt
    • He looked tired and dishevelled.他衣冠不整，显得很疲倦。🔊🔊
    • She returned at 1 a.m. in a dishevelled state.凌晨1点，她衣衫不整地回来了。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDishevelled/​disheveled is used with these nouns:
    • appearance
    • clothes
    • hair
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from obsolete dishevely, from Old French deschevele, past participle of descheveler (based on chevel ‘hair’, from Latin capillus). The original sense was ‘having the hair uncovered’; later, referring to the hair itself, ‘hanging loose’, hence ‘disordered, untidy’. Compare with unkempt.