Bedraggled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {draggled}]
       2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
          "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
          tumble-down shack" [syn: {broken-down}, {dilapidated}, {ramshackle},
           {tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}, {unsound}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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