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addlepated

addlepated adjective: addled; confused; stupid; flustered.

Adjective

addlepated (comparative more addlepated, superlative most addlepated)

  1. Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.
    • Let euery idle addle-pated gull
      With stinking sweet Tobacco stuffe his skull.1630, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet, London: James Boler, page 252
    • Hallo father, here’s Pecksniff! He gets more addle-pated every day he lives, I do believe,’ muttered Jonas, shaking his honoured parent roundly.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

addlepated meaning in Tamil

addlepated in Tamil

குழம்பிப்போன, குளறுபடியான, குழப்பிய, குழப்பமடைந்த, விசித்திரமான, ஒருமாதிரியான

Examples of addlepated in a sentence

  • “Do you actually expect me to wander the world as if I were an addlepated bald woman escaped from the circus?” she would say.1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 456:
  • His best-known creations are the addlepated, cheese-loving inventor Wallace, and Gromit, his patient, intelligent dog.2018 February 14, Charles Solomon, “Nick Park is back in the stop-motion animation game with 'Early Man'”, in LA Times:

Forms of addlepated

comparativemore addlepated
superlativemost addlepated
alternative formaddle-pated

Origin of addlepated

From addle + pated.

Words formed from addlepated

Questions about addlepated

What does addlepated mean?
Addlepated means addled; confused; stupid; flustered.
What is addlepated in Tamil?
Addlepated in Tamil is குழம்பிப்போன, குளறுபடியான, குழப்பிய. See Addlepated meaning in Tamil.
How do you use addlepated in a sentence?
“Do you actually expect me to wander the world as if I were an addlepated bald woman escaped from the circus?” she would say.
What part of speech is addlepated?
Addlepated is an adjective.

Words near addlepated in the dictionary

  1. Addleman
  2. Addlemans
  3. addlement
  4. addleness
  5. addlepate
  6. addlepated
  7. addlepatedness
  8. addlepates
  9. addles
  10. Addlestone
  11. addling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: addlepated (page history and authors); addlepated (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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