bedraggled meaning and definition

BEDRAGGLED adjective

Definition of bedraggled (adjective)

1. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
   • "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
   • synonyms: draggled
2. in deplorable condition
   • "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
   • synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down