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单词 bedraggled
释义

bedraggled

adjective

be·​drag·​gled bi-ˈdra-gəld How to pronounce bedraggled (audio)
bē-
1
: soiled and stained by or as if by trailing in mud
2
: left wet and limp by or as if by rain
3
: dilapidated
bedraggled buildings

Synonyms

  • awash
  • bathed
  • doused
  • dowsed
  • drenched
  • dripping
  • logged
  • saturate
  • saturated
  • soaked
  • soaking
  • sodden
  • soggy
  • sopping
  • soppy
  • soused
  • washed
  • water-soaked
  • watered
  • waterlogged
  • watery
  • wet
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Example Sentences

She was bedraggled and exhausted. the cat looked rather funny, all bedraggled and fit to be tied after her bath
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Word History

Etymology

from past participle of bedraggle

First Known Use

circa 1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

bedraggled

adjective

be·​drag·​gled bi-ˈdra-gəld How to pronounce bedraggled (audio)
: limp, wet, or dirty from or as if from rain or mud
Sitting on Omri's palm, filthy and bedraggled but triumphant, was Little Bear … Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

bedraggled 1 of 2

adjective

1
as in saturated
containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water the cat looked rather funny, all bedraggled and fit to be tied after her bath

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • saturated
  • dripping
  • wet
  • washed
  • bathed
  • saturate
  • soaked
  • flooded
  • sodden
  • waterlogged
  • drenched
  • soggy
  • soaking
  • watered
  • sopping
  • damp
  • soused
  • moist
  • flushed
  • soppy
  • drowned
  • water-soaked
  • doused
  • awash
  • watery
  • logged
  • submerged
  • splashed
  • dowsed
  • inundated
  • rinsed
  • swamped
  • deluged
  • hydrated
  • overflowed
  • humid
  • aqueous
  • dipped
  • steeped
  • irrigated
  • sluiced
  • clammy
  • dank
  • dunked
  • boggy
  • sloppy
  • dampish
  • laved
  • squashy
  • wettish
  • seepy
  • miry
  • semimoist

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dry
  • arid
  • unwatered
  • waterless
  • dehydrated
  • parched
  • baked
  • waterproof
  • watertight
  • sunbaked
  • thirsty
  • hyperarid
  • bone-dry
  • ultradry
  • droughty
  • sere
  • wrung
  • water-repellent
  • water-resistant
  • sear
  • freeze-dried
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2
as in filthy
not clean found flood victims in bedraggled clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • filthy
  • blackened
  • stained
  • dusty
  • muddy
  • dirty
  • black
  • smudged
  • draggled
  • dingy
  • soiled
  • nasty
  • grimy
  • begrimed
  • grubby
  • messy
  • grungy
  • mucky
  • greasy
  • sullied
  • grotty
  • unclean
  • besmirched
  • befouled
  • cruddy
  • sordid
  • polluted
  • smutty
  • confused
  • messed
  • uncleanly
  • sloppy
  • disheveled
  • foul
  • chaotic
  • bemired
  • littered
  • unwashed
  • scruffy
  • rumpled
  • unkempt
  • contaminated
  • tainted
  • defiled
  • uncleaned
  • slovenly
  • untidy
  • mussed
  • cluttered
  • muddled
  • disarrayed
  • dishevelled
  • mussy
  • shabby
  • jumbled
  • insanitary
  • disordered
  • disarranged
  • unsanitary
  • impure
  • squalid
  • germy
  • unsterilized
  • sooty
  • skanky
  • gunky
  • scuzzy
  • crocked
  • unsterile
  • raunchy
  • sleazy
  • collied
  • fuliginous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • clean
  • spotless
  • immaculate
  • unsoiled
  • unsullied
  • unstained
  • clear
  • cleaned
  • tidy
  • limpid
  • pure
  • bleached
  • stainless
  • ultraclean
  • neat
  • groomed
  • orderly
  • cleansed
  • combed
  • shiny
  • spic-and-span
  • cleanly
  • whitened
  • spick-and-span
  • bright
  • sparkling
  • untouched
  • purified
  • perfect
  • ordered
  • unspotted
  • unblemished
  • flawless
  • virgin
  • untainted
  • wholesome
  • unpolluted
  • undefiled
  • taintless
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bedraggled

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verb

past tense of bedraggle
as in wet
to make wet I was so bedraggled by the relentless rain that I couldn't wait to get into some dry clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • wet
  • drowned
  • wetted
  • washed
  • waterlogged
  • flooded
  • drenched
  • soaked
  • watered
  • soused
  • bathed
  • rinsed
  • flushed
  • water-soaked
  • sopped
  • submerged
  • soddened
  • wet down
  • damped
  • doused
  • wetted down
  • moistened
  • dowsed
  • bedewed
  • hydrated
  • splashed
  • showered
  • saturated
  • misted
  • inundated
  • sprinkled
  • dipped
  • swamped
  • deluged
  • humidified
  • moisturized
  • sloshed
  • drizzled
  • dampened
  • impregnated
  • sluiced
  • aspersed
  • irrigated
  • overflowed
  • laved
  • rehydrated
  • steeped
  • rewashed
  • ducked
  • dunked
  • hosed (down)
  • rewet
  • rewetted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dried
  • parched
  • desiccated
  • dehydrated
  • scorched
  • evaporated
  • seared
  • dewatered
  • wrung
  • freeze-dried
  • dehumidified
  • drip-dried
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