RIDDEN Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

ridden

verb

variants or chiefly dialectal rid or rode

Definition of ridden

past participle of ride

as in teased

to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing

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as in kidded

to make fun of in a good-natured way his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday

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as in hovered

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a condor riding high in the sky

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as in depended

to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) our plan for the party rides on whether he can come

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Recent Examples of ridden Any scooter found parked, stored or ridden on campus is subject to fines and impoundment, with enforcement beginning in September after a month-long warning period. — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 Imagine everything that followed Michigan’s loss to Ohio State was a bad dream and Kyle Whittingham never rode his Harley-Davidson into the Big House. — Austin Meek, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Three shooters unloaded 18 rounds at the black Escalade in which Robinson rode with his cousin and the intended target — Tyquian Bowman, a rapper known as Quando Rondo. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Meir, meanwhile, rode one end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm to a site near the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), torquing 46 bolts in preparation for future maintenance of the particle physics detector. — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 The two ended up walking away laughing, and Luiz’s grin rode right into the next conversation, drill or interaction with anyone on the field. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026 The employees attended Vance's speech at the steel plant, where his grandfather worked as a welder for nearly 40 years, and rode in the vice president's motorcade. — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2026 College grad dies hours after X2 Christopher Hawley, a 22-year-old recent college graduate, rode X2 in June of 2022 with his cousin and brother. — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 Redford first rode horseback on screen in the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridden

Verb

Boox teased the Picco, its take on the buzzy Xteink X4 e-reader, back in July, but provided almost no details.

— Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2026
At the time, Earle only teased her potential response to Cooper, but has publicly remained mostly silent about the conflict until now.

— Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of teased

Verb

Naturally, Kelly gets kidded about that as well.

— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2026
When Curt Cignetti was hired just more than two years ago, it was considered a smart move by the athletic department, but no one kidded themselves that Indiana was some sort of raucous fan sleeper cell just waiting to be activated.

— Will Leitch, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026

Definition of kidded

Verb

In the app, Microsoft’s AI assistant, called Copilot, hovered over the page.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
In July, some 300 drones rose beside the 101 freeway and hovered for 15 minutes, forming Angelyne’s face and a telephone number in the night sky.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of hovered

Verb

Call-ins were standard at the time; network morning shows and radio stations also depended on accounts from people on the streets.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
The theater district was one of the major engines of New York's tourism economy, supporting the restaurants, hotels, bars, shops, cab drivers, and thousands of workers whose livelihoods depended on people coming into Manhattan.

— Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of depended

Verb

By Monday, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark floated mandatory kill switches for AI systems.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of floated

Verb

Flynn tried to imagine housewives across the land struggling to create this monstrous concoction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
The Spaniard tried to prepare his players for a crunch game at Anfield by playing You’ll Never Walk Alone, the emotive track that greets the Liverpool players onto the pitch before games, to help ready them for the atmosphere.

— Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of tried

Verb

One guy in cargo shorts and a battered Ramones T-shirt kept casting dirty looks at the sky, clearly annoyed at the thumping of the TV news helicopters — there were at least three overhead at all times — drowning out his commentary.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
What annoyed me the most, though, was the way the meditation teachers talked, which tended toward New Age–isms in passive voice.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026