rumpled
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]rumpled (comparative more rumpled, superlative most rumpled)
- Wrinkled or crumpled.
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
- A demure-looking woman, in a dress rather tawdry and rumpled, here drew her veil well down and rose; but, marking every eye upon her, thought it advisable, upon the whole, to sit down again.
Synonyms
[edit]- bewrinkled, rugose, wrinkly; see also Thesaurus:wrinkled
Translations
[edit]creased, ruffled, dishevelled
Verb
[edit]rumpled
- simple past and past participle of rumple