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cooked

/kʊkt/

cooked adjective: prepared by cooking. Also the simple past and past participle of cook.

Adjective

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)

  1. Prepared by cooking.
    Antonyms:
    raw, uncooked, unprepared
  2. (slang) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
    • Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.2000, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, “Uncook Cooked Files with Uncook 95”, in MP3!: I Didn’t Know You Could Do That--, 2 edition, SYBEX, →ISBN, page 273
    • Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.[2001, Michael Miller, “Chapter 34: Online Music”, in Special Edition Using the Internet and Web, Que, →ISBN, page 564
  3. (intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
    • But the Commanding Officer obviously has no say whatever as to which place he is likely to go, and the result is that, as regards rent, the figures have had to be “cooked,” if I may use such an expression. The figures have had to be cooked.1925 December 5, “In Parliament. The House of Lords”, in The Accountant, volume LXXIII, number 2661, London, England, United Kingdom, page 907
  4. (slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
  5. (predicative, slang) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
    • If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked.1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter XXI, in A Farewell to Arms, Scribner
    • Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.2016 December 14, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election”, in Politico
    Synonyms:
    fucked
  6. (Australia, especially, slang) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
  7. Hungover.
    Synonyms:
    baked
  8. Brain-damaged from drug use.
    • Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.
    Synonyms:
    baked
  9. (Australia, derogatory, figuratively, slang) Of a person: crazy, insane.

Also used as

cooked is also the simple past and past participle of cook.

cooked meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Kannada

cooked in Hindi

in trouble; in a hopeless situation
लग गए lag gae

cooked in Marathi

शिजवलेले, शिजवले, शिजवली

cooked in Telugu

of food, that has been prepared by cooking
వండిన vaṇḍina

cooked in Kannada

ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ, ಬೇಯಿಸಿದವು, ಬೇಯಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ
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cooked in Gujarati
રાંધેલા, રાંધેલું
cooked in Odia
ରନ୍ଧାଯାଇଛି, ରନ୍ଧାଯାଇଥିବା
cooked in Nepali
पकाएको, पकाएका
cooked in Tagalog
luto

Examples of cooked in a sentence

  • As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
  • He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
  • A dish called "plank salmon" likely includes a salmon filet cooked on a plank.

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Synonyms of cooked

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Antonyms

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Forms of cooked

comparativemore cooked
superlativemost cooked

Origin of cooked

From the past tense of the verb cook.

Words formed from cooked

Phrases with cooked

Words that rhyme with cooked

Questions about cooked

What does cooked mean?
Cooked means prepared by cooking.
What is cooked in Hindi?
Cooked in Hindi is लग गए (lag gae). See Cooked meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cooked?
Cooked is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cooked?
Cooked is pronounced /kʊkt/.

Words near cooked in the dictionary

  1. cookdom
  2. Cooke
  3. Cooke County
  4. Cooke triplet
  5. Cooke triplets
  6. cooked
  7. cooked back
  8. cooked mode
  9. cooked off
  10. cooked out
  11. cooked someone's goose

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cooked (page history and authors); cooked (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooked (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooked (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooked (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooked (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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