His grey jersey and trousers were sodden with the rain.
Synonyms: soaked, saturated, sopping, drenched More Synonyms of sodden
-sodden
(-sɒdən)
1. combining form [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
-sodden combines with 'drink' and with the names of alcoholic drinks to form adjectives which describe someone who has drunk too much alcohol and is in a bad state as a result.
He portrays a drink-sodden reporter.
2. combining form [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
-sodden combines with words such as 'rain' to form adjectives which describe someone or something that has become extremelywet as a result of the thing that is mentioned.
The porter put our scruffy rain-sodden luggage on a trolley.
sodden in British English
(ˈsɒdən)
adjective
1.
completely saturated
2.
a.
dulled, esp by excessive drinking
b.
(in combination)
a drink-sodden mind
3.
heavy or doughy, as bread is when improperly cooked
verb
4.
to make or become sodden
Derived forms
soddenly (ˈsoddenly)
adverb
soddenness (ˈsoddenness)
noun
Word origin
C13 soden, past participle of seethe
sodden in American English
(ˈsɑdən)
adjective
1. Archaic
boiled or steeped
2.
filled with moisture; soaked through
3.
heavy or soggy from improper baking or cooking
said as of bread
4.
dull or stupefied, as from liquor
verb transitive, verb intransitive
5.
to make or become sodden
Derived forms
soddenly (ˈsoddenly)
adverb
Word origin
obs. pp. of seethe
Examples of 'sodden' in a sentence
sodden
We were both sodden with rain and sweat.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In many areas cattle have been brought indoors from grazing open fields weeks earlier than normal because the ground is sodden.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In the air hung a rank smell of sweaty, sodden clothes.
Aidan Hartley THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)
The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Heavy afternoon rain left the ground sodden and restricted the game to 11 overs per side.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The driving wind and rain made the conditions unplayable on a heavy, sodden surface.
The Sun (2013)
The sky was like a sodden grey blanket, heavy and too low.
Zindell, David The Broken God (1993)
Leaves were scattered in the high winds and heavy rains, and crops lay battered in sodden fields.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Courses play long when fairways become sodden, often making it impossible to reach the greens in regulation.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Whether dusted with snow or rain sodden, the bold dark shapes draw the eye away from dormant shrubs and dozing flower beds.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Not for her the sodden fields of Glastonbury or backpacking across a dusty Nepalese valley.
The Sun (2014)
Glasgow's monsoon season has left the Ibrox surface sodden and dead.
The Sun (2006)
With rivers close to bursting and ground sodden from days of downpours, tonight's fresh deluge comes at a particularly vulnerable time.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Now I was surrounded by bodies pushing towards the sea for holy dip, or returning with wet hair and baskets crammed with sodden clothes.
Hyland, Paul Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994)
In other languages
sodden
British English: sodden ADJECTIVE
Something that is sodden is extremely wet.
We walked over the sodden grass.
American English: sodden
Brazilian Portuguese: encharcado
Chinese: 湿透的
European Spanish: empapado
French: trempé
German: durchnässt
Italian: fradicio
Japanese: びしょぬれの
Korean: 흠뻑 젖은
European Portuguese: encharcado
Latin American Spanish: empapado
(adjective)
Definition
soaking wet
We stripped off our sodden clothes.
Synonyms
soaked
We got soaked walking home.
saturated
His work clothes were saturated with oil.
sopping
drenched
soggy
soggy cheese and tomato sandwiches
waterlogged
The football match is off because of a waterlogged pitch.
marshy
the broad, marshy plain of the river
boggy
a green patch at the far end of a boggy field
miry
droukit or drookit (Scottish)
Additional synonyms
in the sense of boggy
a green patch at the far end of a boggy field
Synonyms
marshy,
muddy,
waterlogged,
spongy,
swampy,
soft,
yielding,
fenny,
oozy,
miry,
quaggy
in the sense of marshy
the broad, marshy plain of the river
Synonyms
swampy,
wet,
waterlogged,
spongy,
boggy,
fenny,
miry,
paludal,
quaggy
in the sense of saturated
His work clothes were saturated with oil.
Synonyms
soaked,
soaking (wet),
drenched,
sodden,
dripping,
waterlogged,
sopping (wet),
wet through,
soaked to the skin,
wringing wet,
droukit or drookit (Scottish)
Nearby words of
sodden
society
sock
sod
sodden
sodomy
sofa
soft
Synonyms of 'sodden'
sodden
Explore 'sodden' in the dictionary
Additional synonyms
in the sense of soggy
Definition
moist and heavy
soggy cheese and tomato sandwiches
Synonyms
sodden,
saturated,
moist,
heavy,
soaked,
dripping,
waterlogged,
sopping,
mushy,
spongy,
pulpy
in the sense of waterlogged
Definition
saturated with water
The football match is off because of a waterlogged pitch.