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disheartening |
disheartenment |
dished |
dishevel |
disheveled |
dishevelled
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| dishonest
| dishonestly
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dishevelled (root: dishevel)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective dishevelled has 1 sense
- dishevelled(s = adj.all) disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled - 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"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dishevelled, adj. (US disheveled) (of the hair, a person, etc.) untidy; ruffled; disordered.
Derivative
dishevel v.tr. (dishevelled, dishevelling; US disheveled, disheveling). dishevelment n.
Etymology
ME dischevelee f. OF deschevel{eacute} past part. (as DIS-, chevel hair f. L capillus)
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