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rathered

rathered is the simple past and past participle of rather.

Meaning of rather

Verb

rather (third-person singular simple present rathers, present participle rathering, simple past and past participle rathered)

  1. (dialectal, nonstandard) To prefer; to prefer to.
    • You'd rather us dead.

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Questions about rathered

What is rathered the simple past and past participle of?
Rathered is the simple past and past participle of rather.

Words near rathered in the dictionary

  1. rathely
  2. Rathen
  3. ratheness
  4. rather
  5. rather than
  6. rathered
  7. Rathergate
  8. rathering
  9. ratheripe
  10. ratheripes
  11. ratherish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rathered (page history and authors); rather (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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