Synonyms of bedraggled

bedraggled 1 of 2

adjective

bi-ˈdra-gəld 

1

as in dripping

containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water

the cat looked rather funny, all bedraggled and fit to be tied after her bath

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dripping
• saturated
• wet
• bathed
• washed
• flooded
• saturate
• soaked
• sodden
• soggy
• waterlogged
• drenched
• soaking
• watered
• sopping
• water-soaked
• damp
• moist
• soused
• soppy
• flushed
• drowned
• logged
• awash
• watery
• doused
• submerged
• dowsed
• splashed
• hydrated
• rinsed
• inundated
• swamped
• overflowed
• humid
• aqueous
• dipped
• steeped
• irrigated
• clammy
• deluged
• dampish
• dank
• boggy
• sluiced
• sloppy
• squashy
• seepy
• dunked
• miry
• wettish
• laved
• semimoist

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dry
• arid
• unwatered
• waterless
• bone-dry
• dehydrated
• waterproof
• watertight
• baked
• hyperarid
• parched
• water-resistant
• water-repellent
• sunbaked
• thirsty
• droughty
• ultradry
• sere
• wrung
• sear
• freeze-dried

2

as in filthy

not clean

found flood victims in bedraggled clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filthy
• blackened
• stained
• dusty
• muddy
• dirty
• black
• smudged
• nasty
• dingy
• soiled
• grimy
• grubby
• messy
• greasy
• begrimed
• draggled
• mucky
• grungy
• unclean
• sordid
• polluted
• grotty
• smutty
• sloppy
• foul
• sullied
• cruddy
• chaotic
• confused
• befouled
• besmirched
• uncleanly
• disheveled
• littered
• unwashed
• dishevelled
• contaminated
• scruffy
• messed
• rumpled
• bemired
• unkempt
• tainted
• uncleaned
• slovenly
• insanitary
• cluttered
• untidy
• unsanitary
• muddled
• disordered
• jumbled
• impure
• shabby
• disarranged
• squalid
• defiled
• unsterilized
• disarrayed
• mussed
• sooty
• mussy
• unsterile
• germy
• skanky
• raunchy
• scuzzy
• gunky
• sleazy
• crocked
• collied
• fuliginous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clean
• spotless
• immaculate
• unsullied
• unstained
• unsoiled
• spick-and-span
• clear
• stainless
• cleaned
• pure
• limpid
• tidy
• ultraclean
• orderly
• neat
• cleanly
• bleached
• groomed
• spic-and-span
• cleansed
• combed
• shiny
• ordered
• whitened
• perfect
• untouched
• purified
• sparkling
• bright
• unspotted
• flawless
• unblemished
• virgin
• wholesome
• untainted
• unpolluted
• undefiled
• taintless

bedraggled

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verb

past tense of bedraggle

as in wet

to make wet

I was so bedraggled by the relentless rain that I couldn't wait to get into some dry clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wet
• wetted
• drowned
• washed
• flooded
• waterlogged
• drenched
• watered
• soaked
• rinsed
• bathed
• flushed
• soused
• water-soaked
• submerged
• wetted down
• doused
• damped
• dowsed
• soddened
• splashed
• sopped
• moistened
• showered
• wet down
• sprinkled
• dipped
• inundated
• saturated
• hydrated
• misted
• deluged
• swamped
• humidified
• drizzled
• bedewed
• dampened
• impregnated
• irrigated
• sloshed
• overflowed
• sluiced
• moisturized
• hosed (down)
• steeped
• laved
• aspersed
• ducked
• rehydrated
• dunked
• rewashed
• rewetted
• rewet

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dried
• parched
• desiccated
• dehydrated
• scorched
• evaporated
• seared
• dewatered
• freeze-dried
• wrung
• drip-dried
• dehumidified

Examples of bedraggled in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

The bedraggled one-story brick building at 408 South Harwood Street, built in 1930, will be remodeled and reconfigured to serve as the park services building, which will include offices, restrooms and a community room. —Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021

The bedraggled, beaten, inexperienced bullpen allowed five runs in the seventh to blow a big lead in a 5-4 loss. —Evan Grant, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021

For a bedraggled parent short on time and energy, these services can seem like a Fairy Toymother. —Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 2 July 2021

In one apartment, an alarm-clock radio rouses a bedraggled man who looks the way bad breath smells. —New York Times, 3 June 2021