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rumpled en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Wrinkled or crumpled.
    • 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. 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
    • The rumpled octogenarian and two-time presidential candidate [Bernie Sanders] has no plans to seek the Oval Office again. 2025 March 21, Francine Kiefer, Caitlin Babcock, “As Democrats look for a fighter, Bernie Sanders is striking a chord – again”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

Forms

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most rumpled Degree=Sup lexicographic
more rumpled Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

rumpledness · unrumpled

Synonyms

wurly · rugose · rumply · lined · rouched · bewrinkled · ruckly · crumply · rugose · purfly · creased · crinkly · rimpled · bewrinkled · pruny · wrinkly · rugate · wrinkly · rumpled · wrinklesome · wrinkled · rugous · wurlie · writhled

Translations (8)

mi hahohaho (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · id kumal (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · it sgualcito (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · bg смачкан (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · sv rufsig (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · sv skrynklig (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · mi tarihahohaho (creased, ruffled, dishevelled) · su kucel (creased, ruffled, dishevelled)

rumpled en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of rumple
    form of rumple