bedraggled
adj/bɪˈdɹæɡl̩d/UK
Etymology
Definitions
Wet, limp, and unkempt
Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
- A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
- She came at night, and in a storm, with only two attendants, and stood before a peasant’s hut, tired, bedraggled, soaked with rain, “the red print of her lost crown still girdling her brow,” and implored admittance—and was refused!
- No three tramps that one could have met in a Surrey lane could have looked more hopeless and bedraggled.
Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
- It was a tall, shabby building, that cannot have been painted for years, and it had so bedraggled an air that the houses on each side of it looked neat and clean.
simple past and past participle of bedraggle.
The neighborhood
- neighborbedraggle
- neighbordraggled
- neighbordraggle-tail
- neighbordraggle-tailed
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bedraggled. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA