bedraggled

3 definitions found

bedraggled - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bedraggle \Be*drag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedraggled; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Bedraggling.]
     To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are
     suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. --Swift.
     [1913 Webster]

bedraggled - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bedraggled
      adj 1: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's
             bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
             draggled skirts" [syn: bedraggled, draggled]
      2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
         "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-
         down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict,
         dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]

bedraggled - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "bedraggled":
     beat-up, befouled, besmirched, blowzy, careless, chintzy, decrepit,
     defiled, dilapidated, dirtied, dirty, down-at-heel, drabbled,
     drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drenched, faded, fouled,
     frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, grungy, in rags, informal, loose,
     lumpen, messy, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, ragged, raggedy,
     ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack,
     slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirched,
     smudged, soaked, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained,
     sullied, tacky, tainted, tarnished, tattered, threadbare, unkempt,
     unneat, unsightly, untidy, wet