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buttoned

buttoned is the simple past and past participle of button.

Adjective

buttoned (comparative more buttoned, superlative most buttoned)

  1. Having a button or buttons.
    • a buttoned sofa
  2. Having the buttons fastened.

Meaning of button

Verb

button (third-person singular simple present buttons, present participle buttoning, simple past and past participle buttoned)

  1. (transitive) To fasten with a button.
    • He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 50, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
    • The coat will not button.
  3. (informal) To stop talking.

See all 38 meanings of button

Forms of buttoned

comparativemore buttoned
superlativemost buttoned

Words formed from buttoned

Phrases with buttoned

Questions about buttoned

What does buttoned mean?
Buttoned means having a button or buttons.
What is buttoned the simple past and past participle of?
Buttoned is the simple past and past participle of button.
What part of speech is buttoned?
Buttoned is an adjective.

Words near buttoned in the dictionary

  1. buttonball
  2. buttonballs
  3. buttonbush
  4. buttonbushes
  5. buttondown
  6. buttoned
  7. buttoned one's lip
  8. buttoned through
  9. buttoned up
  10. buttoned up one's lip
  11. buttoned-down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttoned (page history and authors); button (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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