bedraggledadjective
uk/bɪˈdræɡ.əld/us/bɪˈdræɡ.əld/wet, dirty, and untidy
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Wet weather & wetness
- deluge
- douse
- dreich
- dripping
- drown
- look like a drowned rat idiom
- misty
- mizzle
- moist
- moisten
- rainy
- rehydration
- saturated
- showery
- soaking
- sodden
- soggy
- sun shower
- sweat
- waterlogged
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Dirty & untidy
Examples from literature
- On his way he met an old woman with a shawl around her, a bedraggled dress and wet feet.
- Susannah trudged downstairs again and dried her bedraggled skirts at the fire—an empty house, a dreary wailing wind, and gathering twilight for her sole companions.
- The lieutenant mopped his face on a bedraggled handkerchief.
- Therefore they laughed and joked over their bedraggled condition.
- This untidy, comfortless, bedraggled room was now hers, her home!