ruffled
Meaning of ruffled
adjective
- (of a person's hair) disarranged.
he ran a hand through his ruffled hair
- (of a garment or part of a garment) having a ruffle or ruffles.
she wore a sparkly top and a ruffled silk skirt
a blouse with a high ruffled neck
- disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.
the father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair
Middle English (as a verb): of unknown origin. Current noun senses date from the mid 17th century.
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Hyphenation of ruffled
ruf-fled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- ruffled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ruffled synonyms
Meaning rippled:
Meaning frilled:
Meaning make untidy or disordered:
Meaning make (a person's hair) untidy:
Meaning make (a person's hair or clothes) untidy:
Meaning give a creased, ruffled, or dishevelled appearance to:
Meaning rumple; disarrange:
Meaning turn over something, especially the pages of a book, quickly and casually:
Meaning disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of:
Meaning twist together into a confused mass:
Meaning make (someone's hair or clothes) untidy or messy:
ruffled antonyms
Meaning give (something) a flat, regular surface or appearance:
Words that rhyme with ruffled
fled, altoruffled, baffled, bemuffled, beruffled, caffled, carfuffled, chuffled, coffled, cuffled, cuffuffled, curfuffled, daffled, gefuffled, kefuffled, kerfuffled, maffled, muffled, piffled, raffled, reshuffled, riffled, scuffled, shuffled, siffled, skiffled, snaffled, sniffled, snuffled, souffled, toruffled, truffled, unbaffled, unmuffled, unraffled, unriffled, unruffled, unshuffled, unsnaffled, waffled, whiffled, rifled, stifled, trifled, unrifled, unstifled, purfled, outfled
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