DISHEVELED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disheveled mean? 

• DISHEVELED (adjective)
  The adjective DISHEVELED has 1 sense:

1. in disarray; extremely disorderly

  Familiarity information: DISHEVELED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHEVELED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In disarray; extremely disorderly

Synonyms:

disheveled; dishevelled; frowzled; rumpled; tousled

Context example:

his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly

Similar:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

 Context examples 

Other pathways regulate this pathway also, such as the modulation of PI3 kinase activity by ceramide and the inhibition of Gsk3-beta activity by the Wnt/frizzled/disheveled (DSH) pathway.

(Beta-Catenin Accumulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Binding of WNT to Frizzled causes disheveled (DSH) to inhibit Glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK-3b) activity.

(Notch and Wnt Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

"What in the world are you doing here?" she asked, regarding her disheveled sister with well-bred surprise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As it opened there came a tumultuous rush into the hall, rapid feet clattered up the stair, and an instant later a wild-eyed and frantic young man, pale, disheveled, and palpitating, burst into the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yes, I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked, answered Mrs. March with a sigh and a smile, as she smoothed and fastened up Jo's disheveled hair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)