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bedaft

bedaft adjective: stupid; foolish; dim-witted.

Adjective

bedaft (comparative more bedaft, superlative most bedaft)

  1. (archaic) Stupid; foolish; dim-witted.
    • Then are you blind, dull-witted, and bedaft.

Forms of bedaft

comparativemore bedaft
superlativemost bedaft

Origin of bedaft

From bedaff (“to befool, make a fool of”) + -t (past tense ending).

Questions about bedaft

What does bedaft mean?
Bedaft means stupid; foolish; dim-witted.
What part of speech is bedaft?
Bedaft is an adjective.

Words near bedaft in the dictionary

  1. bedabbles
  2. bedabbling
  3. bedad
  4. bedaff
  5. bedaffled
  6. bedaft
  7. bedag
  8. bedagged
  9. bedaggered
  10. bedagging
  11. bedaggle

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