🧣 Soft surface 🍃 Lightly touched 💇 Made neat

brushed

1.3

Having hair or clothes smoothed to look neat

adjective
/brʌʃt/

: peinado

The artist styled the model's hair so that it looked perfectly brushed for the photoshoot.

Examples

Her hair was beautifully brushed, giving her a polished and elegant appearance.
I've never really been a huge fan of like the really brushed up brow.
And her severely brushed hair seemed suddenly to testify to this.

Fiction book (1993)
And much of the hair on the loud music seemed groomed, brushed, uncoiled, and thin.

Fiction book (1997)
Instead she brushed her hair again, vigorously so the sparks would fly, and once again she heard the little Husky laugh of delight.
On the red carpet, her brushed hairstyle made a stunning statement among the crowd.

Synonyms

well-groomed

vsbrushed

9 3.5

Neat and tidy in appearance with clean clothes and neat hair

is achieved by a quick tool motion that makes hair or clothing neat

groomed

vsbrushed

3.0

Neat and clean in appearance because someone cares for it

is made neat by a simple tool motion to tidy hair or clothing

combed

vsbrushed

1.0

Hair that someone makes tidy by using a comb

is made tidy by a broad tool motion rather than a toothed tool

slicked up

vsbrushed

6.3

Looks tidy and neat after an extra effort to look good

is a common quick tidy done with little extra effort

Antonyms

disheveled

21 6.1

Having messy hair, clothes, or things around them

unkempt

13 5.1

Not neat in appearance, often with messy hair or clothes

How Groomed

well-groomed

9 3.5

brushed

1.3

tidy

47 1.0

unkempt

13 5.1

Surface Forms

brushed positive

Morphology

brushed = brush (transparent) = brush + ed

Derived by adding the participial/adjectival '-ed' to 'brush', indicating 'having been brushed' (groomed).

Etymology

Brushed comes from the verb brush, which means 'to clean' or 'to smooth' with a brush. That is why hair or clothes described as brushed have been made neat and shiny by using a brush.