adjective
- disheveled or untidy, especially referring to hair or clothing
Usage: informal
Examples
- Her hair was mussed from sleeping.
- He emerged from the wind with a mussed appearance.
- The child’s mussed clothing showed he had been playing outside.
- She tried to smooth her mussed hair before the meeting.
- His mussed shirt needed to be pressed.
- The mussed bedsheets indicated someone had been napping.