Synonyms for bedraggled
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Scruffy — wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc
scruffy, unkempt, dirty, tattered, shabby, slovenly, frumpy, soiled, rag-tag, grungy, sloppy, tacky, sluttish, draggled, slatternly, untidy, dowdy
2. Dilapidated — decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
dilapidated, broken-down, run-down, beat-up, ramshackle, derelict, seedy, ruinous, tatterdemalion, decrepit
Definitions
- adj. 1
Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
- adj. 2
Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
Related words
- Word family
- bedraggle
Example sentences
- scruffy He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.
- tattered I see a tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
- unkempt He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.
- slovenly As to his daily life, he is very slovenly.
- dilapidated Who lives in that dilapidated shack near the lake?
By length
- 5 letters
- dirty2, tacky2, seedy2, dowdy2
- 6 letters
- sloppy2, shabby2, soiled1, untidy3, grungy2, frumpy2
- 7 letters
- scruffy2, ruinous3, unkempt2
- 8 letters
- derelict3, tattered2, decrepit3, slovenly3, sluttish, draggled
- 10 letters
- ramshackle3, slatternly
- 11 letters
- dilapidated5
- 14 letters
- tatterdemalion
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dirty2 = 2 syllables).