rumple
/ˈrʌmp(ə)l
/verb [with object] (usually as adjective rumpled)
Give a creased, ruffled, or dishevelled appearance to: a rumpled bed...
- She got up, not answering, brushing her blouse and smoothing out the slightly rumpled skirt.
- She sighed as, at long last, she fell into her bed, not even noticing the fact that the sheets were rumpled.
- The cotton of her skirt was slightly rumpled, and she could see a few strands of hair had strayed from her loose bun.
Synonyms
crumple, crease, wrinkle, tumble, crush, crinkle, ruck, ruck up, scrunch up, disorder
British rare ruckle
ruffle, disarrange, tousle, dishevel, run one's fingers through, riffle;
make untidy, mess up, make a mess of
North American informal muss, muss up
noun [in singular]
An untidy state: she left her clothes in a rumple on the floor
Derivatives
rumply
Origin
Early 16th century (as a noun in the sense 'wrinkle'): from Middle Dutch rompel.
Rhymes
- fearsome
- fearsomely
- fearsomeness
- feart
- feartie
- feasibility
- feasibility study
- feasible
- feasibly
- feast
- feast day
- feaster
- Feast of Dedication
- Feast of Tabernacles
- Feast of Weeks
- feast one's eyes on
- feast or famine
- feat
- feather
- featherback
- feather bed
- feather boa
- feather-brain
- feather-brained
- feather cut