Word.ws English Dictionary

beditated

beditated is the simple past and past participle of beditate.

Meaning of beditate

Verb

beditate (third-person singular simple present beditates, present participle beditating, simple past and past participle beditated)

  1. (informal) To meditate while lying down, typically in bed.
    • He was lying on the wharf beside me when he grew silent. I asked, "Meditating?" He smiled and returned, "Beditating." We rarely went to bed before three or four a.m., especially on weekends.1980, Judith Schubert Kranes, David Schubert, Works and Days (Contemporary Poetry Series; 24), Princeton, N.J.: Quarterly Review of Literature, published 1983, page 136

Questions about beditated

What is beditated the simple past and past participle of?
Beditated is the simple past and past participle of beditate.

Words near beditated in the dictionary

  1. Bedis
  2. bedisen
  3. bedisened
  4. bedisens
  5. beditate
  6. beditated
  7. beditates
  8. beditating
  9. beditation
  10. bedizen
  11. bedizened

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beditated (page history and authors); beditate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “beditated.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/beditated. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.