Dishevelled vs Messy - What's the difference?
dishevelled | messy |
(of a person) With the hair uncombed.
(by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=6 (dishevel)
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
Messy is a synonym of dishevelled.
As adjectives the difference between dishevelled and messy
is that dishevelled is of a person With the hair uncombed while messy is in a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.As a verb dishevelled
is past tense of dishevel.dishevelled
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Alternative forms
* disheveledAdjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
Synonyms
* messy, unkempt, untidyVerb
(head)See also
* unkemptmessy
English
Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}