Synonyms for bedraggled


Grammar : Adj
Spell : bih-drag-uh ld
Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈdræg əld

Top 10 synonyms for bedraggled Other synonyms for the word bedraggled

Définition of bedraggled

Origin :
  • 1727, past participle adjective from bedraggle.
  • adj unkempt
Example sentences :
  • She had changed the bedraggled frock for the green one she had worn the night before.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • His relief was so great that, forgetting his own bedraggled condition, he laughed.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • The plumage, once shining with hues direct from heaven, is soiled and bedraggled.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • He is dressed neither in a rainbow, nor bedraggled with blood.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on Landscape » by John Ruskin
  • The lieutenant mopped his face on a bedraggled handkerchief.
  • Extract from : « Oomphel in the Sky » by Henry Beam Piper
  • The men were bedraggled, and so wet one could not make out the color of the dress.
  • Extract from : « Bonaventure » by George Washington Cable
  • It was not bedraggled, so it had fallen recently, as the winds had not beaten it about.
  • Extract from : « The Eyes of the Woods » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • What they found was only a bedraggled messenger boy, for it was now raining.
  • Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
  • I'm glad there's nobody but this old man to see me in this bedraggled bonnet.
  • Extract from : « The Old Tobacco Shop » by William Bowen
  • Nan saw his wet face, with the bedraggled hair clinging about it.
  • Extract from : « Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp » by Annie Roe Carr

Antonyms for bedraggled

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