Tousled

Definition: Tousled

Tousled

Adjective

1. In disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers.

Date "tousled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references)

Synonyms: Tousled

Synonyms: disheveled (adj), dishevelled (adj), frowzled (adj), rumpled (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tousled

English words defined with "tousled": dishevel, disheveled, dishevelled ♦ frowzled ♦ rumpled ♦ tangle, tousle. (references)

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	I ventured to kiss his tousled hair. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Tousled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.11% of the time. "Tousled" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	71.11%	64	42,009
Lexical Verb (past tense)	24.44%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (past participle)	4.44%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	90	N/A

Expressions using "tousled": become tousled ♦ tousled hair. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tousled": tousled-hair, tousled-haired, tousled-head, tousled-headed, tousled-tressed.
	Ending with "tousled": sleep-tousled.
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Language		Translations for "tousled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏أشعث (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, frowzy, ragged, shaggy, unkempt). (various references)

Finnish		pörröinen (dishevelled, ruffled up, rumpled, shaggy). (various references)

French		échevelé, ébouriffé. (various references)

German		strubbelig, zauste. (various references)

Hungarian		zilált (blowzy, deranged, disheveled, dishevelled, distempered, inordinate, rooky, ruffled, straggly), kuszált (promiscuous). (various references)

Indonesian		kusut (disordered, knotty, tously), awut-awutan (chaotic, haphazard, tangled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		もぎ取る (bushy, disheveled, hello, if so, in that case, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, to be torn off, to break or tear off, to come off, to pick, to pluck off, unkempt), もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もしゃもしゃ (bushy, disheveled, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, unkempt), もじゃもじゃ (dishevelled, shaggy, unkempt). (various references)

Manx		rucksit. (various references)

Pig Latin		ousledtay

Romanian		zbârlit (bristly, dishevelled, fluffy, fuzzy, horrent), lãţos (dishevelled, unkempt), ciufulit (blowzy, dishevelled, fluffy, ruffled, rumpled, unkempt), buhos (dishevelled, hirsute, unkempt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razbarušen (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, ruffle up, unkempt). (various references)

Spanish		enmarañado (beetle, complicated, inextricable, involved, matted, messy, rambling, shaggy, tangled), en desorden (haywire, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pellmell, topsyturvy, untidy), despeinado (disheveled, dishevelled, rough, windswept), desarreglado (disordered, disorderly, untidily, untidy), ajado (withered). (various references)

Swedish		rufsig (blowzy, dishevelled). (various references)

Ukrainian		скуйовджений. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Tousled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dousland, rousled, tosle, tossled, toule, Toutle, touzel, touzle, touzled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: loudest.
	Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: loused, louted, lusted, oldest, ousted, solute, souled, stoled, toused, tousle.
	-2 letters: delts, doest, doles, dolts, dotes, douse, duels, duets, dulse, leuds, lodes, lotus, louse, louts, ludes, luted, lutes, ousel, outed, slued, soled, stole, telos, toled, toles, tolus, touse, tules.
	-3 letters: dels, delt, does, dole, dols, dolt, dose, dost, dote, dots, duel, dues, duet.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: couldest, doublets, outduels, postlude, solitude, toluides, wouldest.
	+2 letters: autolysed, cloudiest, cloudlets, consulted, dentulous, desultory, dissolute, doubtless, loudliest, modulates, mouldiest, osculated, outfields, outlasted, outsailed, outsmiled, outsulked, outyields, postludes, roundlets, shouldest, solitudes, tediously.
	+3 letters: adulterous, deltoideus, deutoplasm, doubletons, edentulous, longitudes, outblessed, outblushed, outclassed, outdazzles, outhustled, outlanders, outmuscled, outscolded, outslicked, outspelled, postulated, quodlibets, solicitude, sporulated, subtotaled, sulfonated, tendrilous, toluidines, underplots, ungodliest, unmolested.
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