English

Adjective

bedraggled ‎(comparative more bedraggled, superlative most bedraggled)

1. Wet and limp; unkempt.
2. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
   • 1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers

     She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

Derived terms

• bedraggledly
• bedraggledness

Synonyms

• draggled

Verb

bedraggled

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle