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sweatered

sweatered adjective: wearing a sweater. Also the simple past and past participle of sweater.

Adjective

sweatered (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a sweater.
    • In the hallways and entryrooms, the exits and entrances, the overflow jostled each other for position, sweatered girls jumping excitedly trying to see over the people in front of them, jacketed boys standing on tiptoe.1962, Edmund Schiddel, chapter 15, in Scandal’s Child: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 211

Also used as

sweatered is also the simple past and past participle of sweater.

Origin of sweatered

From sweater + -ed.

Phrases with sweatered

Questions about sweatered

What does sweatered mean?
Sweatered means wearing a sweater.
What part of speech is sweatered?
Sweatered is an adjective.

Words near sweatered in the dictionary

  1. sweater vests
  2. sweater-dress
  3. sweater-dresses
  4. sweaterdress
  5. sweaterdresses
  6. sweatered
  7. sweatered up
  8. sweatering
  9. sweatering up
  10. sweaterless
  11. sweaterlike

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