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# tousled

adjective (tousled); from the verb tousle (tousle, tousles, tousled, tousling)

«tousled» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks as if you have just woken up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#m1)

### In the lessons

A describing word for appearance in stories: a child with tousled hair just out of bed, a boy tousled by the wind. Grown-ups sometimes tousle a child's hair as a kind gesture.

### Examples

- He came down to breakfast with tousled hair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x1)
- The wind left her hair tousled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x2)
- Dad tousled my hair and smiled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x3)
- A tousled puppy jumped out of the box. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x4)
- She looked tousled after the long trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x5)
- His tousled curls stuck out everywhere. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x6)

### Note

Mostly used about hair. Say TOW-zuld: the first part sounds like «cow». Similar: messy, ruffled, untidy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tousled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tousled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tousled.html) on Mova free.