'Bedraggled' definitions:
Definition of 'bedraggled'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" [syn: bedraggled, draggled]
adjective
In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]
Definition of 'Bedraggled'
From: GCIDE
- Bedraggle \Be*drag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedraggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedraggling.] To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bedraggled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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