| 单词 | rumpled |
| 释义 | rumpled (once / 5054 pages) adj Anything wrinkled or disheveled is rumpled. Unless you make your bed neatly in the morning, your blankets will still be rumpled when you climb in at bedtime. You'll make a better impression at a job interview if you wear crisp pants and an ironed shirt than if you show up in a rumpled suit. You can even describe a person as looking rumpled, if they seem generally messy and bedraggled. The adjective rumpled comes from the verb rumple, which is most likely a variation on the now-obsolete rimple, "to wrinkle." WORD FAMILYrumple: rumpled, rumples, rumpling USAGE EXAMPLESWilliams plays his ex-wife; she is sassy, rumpled, no-nonsense, with splotchy roots. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) That was the night that, in a gesture that for some viewers said more about the host than the guest, Fallon rumpled Trump's hair. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) He wore a faded green polo with a rumpled collar, lightly patterned across the midsection with dark bands of drying sweat. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) adj in disarray; extremely disorderly a rumpled unmade bed Syn disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, tousled untidy not neat and tidy |
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