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Definition: Addled |
AddledAdjective1. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg". 2. Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "addled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: AddledSynonyms: befuddled (adj), muddled (adj), muzzy (adj), woolly (adj), woolly-headed (adj), wooly (adj), wooly-minded (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unproductiveness | Adjective: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable; (useless); null and void, of no effect. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Addled |
| English words defined with "addled": befuddled ♦ muddled, muzzy ♦ Wind egg, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "addled": Ostrich Eggs in Churches. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Addled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Addled" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 38.46% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "addled": addled egg ♦ become addled. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "addled": album-addled, dope-addled, drug-addled, smack-addled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
addled | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "addled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | dom (foolish, stupid), bedorwe (bad, rotten, spoiled). (various references) | |
Albanian | marrë (foolish, stupid), i prishur (addle, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развален (bad, corrupt, depraved, disfigured, perished, rank, spoilt), размътен (roily, turbid). (various references) | |
Chinese | 混淆 (Addle, Addling, Bedevil, Bedevilled, Bedevilling, Confuse, Confusing). (various references) | |
Czech | zkažené vejce (addled egg). (various references) | |
Danish | dum (foolish, stupid). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwakhoofdig (foolish, stupid), verrot (bad, rotten), stom (dumb, foolish, mute, silent, speechless, stupid), schaapachtig (foolish, stupid), rot (bad, gang, rat, rotten, squad, ugly), onbenullig (commonplace, course, foolish, stupid, vulgar), dom (cathedral, dull, foolish, obtuse, stupid, stupidly), bot (abrupt, blunt, bone, crude, foolish, raw, rough, stupid, unrefined, unwrought), bedorven (bad, rotten, spoiled). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tápuligur (foolish, stupid). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyhmä (dense, dull, foolish, silly, stupid, thick-headed, unwise). (various references) | |
French | stupide, sot, pourri (addle), idiot, brouillon (addle, addle-brained). (various references) | |
Frisian | ferrotte (bad, rotten). (various references) | |
German | albern (absurd, clownish, fatuous, fatuously, foolish, footling, giggly, inane, inanely, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, simper, simpering, simperingly, stupid), verdummt (makes-stupid), verdorben (bad, corrupt, corrupted, corruptly, debauched, depraved, foul, off, perished, polluted, putrid, putridly, rotten, ruined, spoiled, tainted, upset), verdarb (barbarized, spoiled, tainted, vitiated, wracked), faulig (bad, foul, going bad, going off, going rotten, putrefactive, putrid, rotten, stagnating, stale), faul (bad, decayed, dubious, dud, feeble, fishy, flimsy, foul, idle, idly, indolent, laggard, lame, lazily, lazy, off, phoney, phony, putrid, rotten, rottenly, slothful, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, sluggishly, sorry, suspicious, uneasy), dumm (asinine, blockish, brainless, dull, dully, dumb, fatuous, foolish, footling, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inanely, oafish, obtuse, purblindly, silly, stupid, stupidly, thick, thumb, unintelligent). (various references) | |
Greek | κλούβιος. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | marrë (foolish, stupid). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבולבל (confused, disturbed, flurried, fuddled, incoherent, muddleheaded, perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megzápult (addle), buta (anserine, blunt, bovine, brainless, dead above the ears, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dumb, fatuous, foolish, loggerheaded, mindless, silly, simple minded, stupid, to be out of one's skull, unwise, zombie). (various references) | |
Italian | stupido (asinine, blockhead, chump, clot, dumb, fool, foolish, idiot, idiotic, mindless, nitwit, numskull, oafish, silly, stupid, stupide, witless), sciocco (booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, silly, simper, soppy, spoony, stupid), ignorante (abecedarian, clodhopper, dunce, foolish, ignoramus, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, impolite, nescient, rude, stupid, uneducated, unillumined, uninformed, unknowable). (various references) | |
Malay | buruk (bad, nasty, rotten, ugly). (various references) | |
Manx | lheeahree (addled as egg, mustiness). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sokete (fool, foolish, stupid), chambòn (fool, foolish, stupid), bubè (foolish, stupid), bobo (foolish, stupid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addleday.(various references) | |
Polish | głupi (foolish, stupid). (various references) | |
Portuguese | podre (addle, bad, foul, punk, putrid, rotten, stinking, tainted, unsound). (various references) | |
Russian | глумый (stupid), испорченный (corrupt, depraved, derogate, flyblown, out of order, putrid, rotten, spoilt, tainted, uncound). (various references) | |
Scottish | gluig, diuchaidh. (various references) | |
Spanish | podrido (addle, bad, putrid, rotten, rotting, tacky). (various references) | |
Sranan | don (foolish, stupid). (various references) | |
Swahili | -bovu (bad, rotten). (various references) | |
Swedish | rutten (bad, foul, putrid, rotten, rotting). (various references) | |
Turkish | akilsiz (foolish, stupid), ahmak (ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp), kafası karışmış (addle, bemused, confused, perplexed, puzzled, puzzle-headed), cılk (addle, rotten), şaşkın (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bemused, bepuzzle, bewildered, confused, consternated, dizzy, dumbfounded, gaping, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering). (various references) | |
Welsh | clwc, clonc (clank, gossip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abortivo, abortivum, bardus, blennus, cariosus, stultus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "addled": daddled, paddled, raddled, resaddled, saddled, skedaddled, spraddled, straddled, swaddled, twaddled, unsaddled, waddled. (additional references) | |
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"Addled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addeb, addel, addlend, Adelheid, Adland, adle, adled, amdled, Ard'ed, ardle, ardler, Audland, edled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "addled" (pronounced a"duld) |
| 5 | a" d u l d | paddled, saddled, straddled. |
| 4 | -d u l d | backpedaled, befuddled, bridled, bundled, coddled, cuddled, kindled, ladled, dwindled, fiddled, fondled, handled, huddled, idled, manhandled, mishandled, modeled, muddled, needled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, rekindled, remodeled, riddled, swindled, trundled, unbridled, widdled. |
| 3 | -u l d | ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, leveled, levelled, libeled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fizzled, flanneled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, humbled, hustled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mislabeled, mottled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paneled, parceled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, tumbled, tussled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daddle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-l" | |
-1 letter: added, addle, dedal, laded. | |
-2 letters: dale, dead, deal, lade, lead. | |
-3 letters: add, ale, dad, dal, del, eld, lad, lea, led. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-d-e-l" | |
+1 letter: addedly, daddled, daddles, dandled, dawdled, gladded, paddled, raddled, saddled, waddled. | |
+2 letters: deleaded, laddered, swaddled, twaddled. | |
+3 letters: begladded, defiladed, gladdened, resaddled, skedaddle, spraddled, straddled, unsaddled. | |
+4 letters: addlepated, baldheaded, deadlifted, deadlocked, degradedly, downloaded, fiddlehead, paradiddle, saddlebred, sidesaddle, skedaddled, skedaddler, skedaddles, taradiddle. | |
+5 letters: dedicatedly, demodulated, dilapidated, fiddleheads, paddleboard, paradiddles, saddlebreds, sidesaddles, skedaddlers, skedaddling, taradiddles, tarradiddle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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