bedraggled

[ bih-drag-uhld ]

adjective

1. limp and soiled, as with rain or dirt.

bedraggled

/ bɪˈdræɡəld /

adjective

1. (of hair, clothing, etc) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud

Other Words From

• unbe·draggled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedraggled¹

bedraggle + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Owen’s bedraggled Blanche, too exhausted to keep up with her own lies, seemed complicit in her own demise.

From Los Angeles Times

She wound up in a town she’d never noticed before, standing outside a bedraggled old motel, smitten.

From Los Angeles Times

Beside him was an ancient and bedraggled donkey, who did not get up and may have been dead.

From Literature

That's lucky, because for her role as budding playwright Maggie in Channel 4 dark comedy Big Mood, she looks pretty bedraggled in some scenes.

From BBC

You see what is stood in front of you, though often bedraggled.

From BBC

Related Words

• disheveled
• run down
• seedy
• threadbare
• untidy