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Adjective rumpled has 2 senses
- disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled - in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
Antonym: tidy (indirect, via untidy)
- crumpled, creased, rumpled - having wrinkles; "crumpled paper"; "her skirt had become creased"; "a rumpled gray suit"
Antonyms: unwrinkled, wrinkleless (indirect, via wrinkled)
Verb rumple has 3 senses
- ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
--1 is one way to disarrange
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
--2 is one way to wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
Sample sentence:
They rumple the sheets
- rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
--3 is one way to fold, fold up
Sample sentences:
The sheets didn't rumple
These fabrics rumple easily
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