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bedraggled

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bedraggled

1 containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water

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

awash, bathed, doused (also dowsed), drenched, dripping, logged, saturate, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, soppy, soused, washed, water-soaked, watered, waterlogged, watery, wet
Words Related to bedraggled

deluged, drowned, flooded, inundated, overflowed

submerged, swamped

hydrated

dipped, dunked, splashed

aqueous

steeped

flushed, irrigated, laved, rinsed, sluiced

clammy, damp, dampish, dank, humid, moist, semimoist, wettish

boggy, miry, seepy, sloppy, squashy
Near Antonyms of bedraggled

bone-dry, hyperarid, ultradry

waterproof, water-repellent, water-resistant, watertight

baked, dehydrated, freeze-dried

droughty, parched, sere (also sear), sunbaked, thirsty

wrung
Antonyms of bedraggled

arid, dry, unwatered, waterless

2 not clean

  • found flood victims in bedraggled clothes
Synonyms of bedraggled

befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, smutty, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly
Words Related to bedraggled

contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted

insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed

greasy, gunky

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, skanky [slang], sleazy, squalid

collied [chiefly British dialect], crocked [dialect], fuliginous, sooty
Near Antonyms of bedraggled

clear, limpid, pure

cleaned, cleansed, combed, groomed, neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

bleached, purified, whitened

bright, flawless, perfect, shiny, sparkling, unspotted, untouched

taintless, unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, virgin, wholesome
Antonyms of bedraggled

clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied

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