rumpled

Wrinkled or crumpled.

Adjective

  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,...
    • 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...

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

Forms

more rumpled most rumpled

Derived

rumpledness unrumpled

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of rumple