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- [tou-zuh ld]
- /ˈtaʊ zəld/
- /ˈtaʊ.zl̩d/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tou-zuh ld]
- /ˈtaʊ zəld/
Definitions of tousled word
- adjective tousled disordered or disheveled: tousled hair; tousled clothes. 1
- verb with object tousled to disorder or dishevel: The wind tousled our hair. 1
- verb with object tousled to handle roughly. 1
- noun tousled a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair. 1
- noun tousled a disordered, disheveled, or tangled condition. 1
- adjective tousled untidy, dishevelled 1
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Origin of tousled
First appearance:
before 1840 One of the 33% newest English words
First recorded in 1840-50; tousle + -ed2
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Parts of speech for Tousled
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tousled popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tousled
adj tousled
- all over the place — If something is happening all over the place, it is happening in many different places.
- blowzy — fat, ruddy, and coarse-looking
- brambly — having or resembling brambles.
- chapped — If your skin is chapped, it is dry, cracked, and sore.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
adjective tousled
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- nodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- wrinkly — having wrinkles or tending to wrinkle; creased; puckery: a wrinkly material.
Antonyms for tousled
adj tousled
- bandbox — a lightweight usually cylindrical box used for holding small articles, esp hats
- dapper — A man who is dapper has a very neat and clean appearance, and is often also small and thin.
- doggy — a little dog or a puppy.
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
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