Bedraggled Definition & Meaning
bedraggled
- adjective
- limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
- in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack"
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- What does bedraggled mean?
- limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack"
- What part of speech is bedraggled?
- Bedraggled is an adjective.
- How many definitions does bedraggled have?
- Bedraggled has 2 definitions across 1 part of speech (adjective).