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bedfast

bedfast adjective: unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.

Adjective

bedfast (comparative more bedfast, superlative most bedfast)

  1. Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
    • For these eight or ten months I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast and sometimes not; but these last three months I have been tortured with an excruciating rheumatism, which has reduced me to nearly the last stage.1796, Robert Burns, letter written to Mr. Cunningham, 7 July, 1796, in The Prose Works of Robert Burns; Containing his Letters and Correspondence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819, p. 278...
    • "She had been a very active woman... Now she was bed-fast and had been for three years."1948, Robert Heinlein, Space Cadet (1948), from the edition reissued in 1975 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC: p. 118, lines 13 through 15.
    Synonyms:
    bedbound, bedridden

Noun

bedfast (plural bedfasts)

  1. A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.
  2. One who is bedfast.

bedfast meaning in Tamil

bedfast in Tamil

படுக்கைவிட்டு எழ இயலாமை, படுக்கையாய்க் கிடக்கிற

Synonyms of bedfast

Forms of bedfast

Adjective
comparativemore bedfast
superlativemost bedfast
alternative formbed-fast
Noun
pluralbedfasts
alternative formbed fast

Origin of bedfast

From bed + fast.

Questions about bedfast

What does bedfast mean?
Bedfast means unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
What is bedfast in Tamil?
Bedfast in Tamil is படுக்கைவிட்டு எழ இயலாமை, படுக்கையாய்க் கிடக்கிற. See Bedfast meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bedfast?
Bedfast can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bedfast in the dictionary

  1. bedewoman
  2. bedewomen
  3. bedews
  4. bedewy
  5. Bedf
  6. bedfast
  7. bedfasts
  8. bedfellow
  9. bedfellows
  10. bedfellowship
  11. bedfellowships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedfast (page history and authors); bedfast (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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