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addle-headed |
addle-pate |
addle-pated |
addle-patedness |
addlebrained |
addled
| addlehead
| addlepate
| addlepated
| addlings
| addoom
addled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective addled has 2 senses
- addled(s = adj.all) Array - (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
- addled(s = adj.all) befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded - confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
addled, adj.
1 (of an egg) rotten, producing no chick.
2 muddled.
1 (of an egg) rotten, producing no chick.
2 muddled.
Etymology
ADDLE adj., assim. to past part. form
THESAURUS
addled
addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted, blear-witted, blind drunk, buffaloed, cloudy, confounded, crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, floored, flustered, fogged, foggy, fou, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, in a dilemma, in a fog, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, licked, maudlin, mellow, merry, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, mystified, nappy, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, puzzleheaded, reeling, scramblebrained, shikker, sodden, sotted, stuck, stumped, thrown, tiddly, tipsy, under the influenceROGET THESAURUS
addled
Unproductiveness
N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.
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