Dictionary Definition
bedraggled adj
1 limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the
beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
draggled skirts" [syn: draggled]
2 in deplorable condition; "a street of
bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old
pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: broken-down,
dilapidated,
ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down,
unsound]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /bɪˈdɹægl̩d/ 1=/bI"dr
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
beat-up, befouled, besmirched, blowzy, careless, chintzy, decrepit, defiled, dilapidated, dirtied, dirty, down-at-heel, drabbled, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drenched, faded, fouled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, grungy, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirched, smudged, soaked, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, tacky, tainted, tarnished, tattered, threadbare, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, wet