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Past tense of clutter

regular verb

The past tense of clutter is cluttered. The past participle is also cluttered.

Forms of clutter

Base form (V1)clutter /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/
Past tense (V2)cluttered /ˈklʌtɚd/
Past participle (V3)cluttered /ˈklʌtɚd/
Present participlecluttering
Third person singularclutters

Cluttered in a sentence

  • The desk was cluttered with papers and books, making it hard to concentrate.From the entry desk
  • The hotel lobby was cluttered up with furniture.From the entry clutter up
  • The veranda, cluttered with waders, boots, rods and tackle, is where the fishing day begins.2015 April 2, Tom Fort, “Trout fishing in Chilean Patagonia [print version: Gone fishing – and waking up in heaven, 4 April 2015, p. T6]”…. From the entry piscatorial
  • A cluttered virtual desktop is as bad as a cluttered physical desktop.2011, Adam Pash, Gina Trapani, Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better. From the entry lolcat
  • In a cluttered study Lincoln sits in shirtsleeves and slippers, at work on the document.2007, Darrel E. Bigham, Lincoln, Race, and Slavery. From the entry shirtsleeves

Meaning of clutter

  1. noun A confused disordered jumble of things.
  2. noun Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
  3. noun Clatter; confused noise.

Full definition of clutter

Questions about the past tense of clutter

What is the past tense of clutter?
The past tense of clutter is cluttered.
What is the past participle of clutter?
The past participle of clutter is cluttered.
Is clutter a regular or irregular verb?
Clutter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clutter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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