bedraggled

Meanings

Verb

• make wet and dirty, as from rain
• simple past and past participle of bedraggle.

Adjective Satellite

• limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
  • "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"
• in deplorable condition
  • "a street of bedraggled tenements"

Adj

• Wet and limp; unkempt.
• Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.

Synonyms

beat, beat up, beaten up, bedraggle, bedraggled, blowsy, broken-down, crumbling, derelict, dilapidated, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, downgone, draggle, draggle-tailed, draggled, frowsy, frumpy, grotty, grufty, grungy, hashy, mangy, mean, neglected, out at the heels, piggy, qualifier, ragtag, ramshackle, ribby, ruinous, run-down, schleppy, schlumpy, scratty, scrofulous, scroungy, scruffy, scrungy, seedy, shabby, slammocky, slatternly, slobbish, slobby, sloppy, slovenlike, slovenly, slummocky, sluttish, tacky, tatterdemalion, timeworn, tore up, trampish, tumble-down, tumbledown, unfine, unkemmed, unkempt, unshaven

Related Words

bedraggle, draggle-tail, draggle-tailed, draggled