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uncombed

Did you roll out of bed this morning without pulling a brush through your hair? Then it's uncombed, messy, and snarled.

The adjective uncombed is mainly used to describe hair that hasn't been neatly untangled with a comb. Your dad might remind you that it's school picture day and your hair is uncombed, for example. Uncombed comes from the verb comb, which means "draw a comb through." Comb also has the colloquial meaning "search thoroughly"; so if the detective hasn't yet ransacked the creepy old mansion, hunting for clues, you can say it remains uncombed.

Definitions of uncombed
  1. adjective
    (of hair) not combed
    “he was unwashed and uncombed with his clothes half buttoned”
    synonyms:
    uncombable
    not capable of being combed
    unkempt
    not neatly combed
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    antonyms:
    combed
    (of hair) made tidy with a comb
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