English Explanatory Dictionary

clad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of clothe
adj
  1. Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
  2. Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
  3. Adorned, ornamented.
verb
  1. To clothe, to dress.
  2. To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
  3. To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

Pronunciation

/klæd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-clad.wav

Word forms

clad clads cladding cladded

Etymology

From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).

Synonyms

attired beclad raimented aguised clad clothed dressed habilimented nonnude sarkit togged vested yclothed

Antonyms

unclad au naturel bare bare-ass bare-assed bare-bottomed bare-bum bare-butt barefoot all over bare naked bareskin bare-skinned Billy bollocks bollock naked bollocky buck ass naked buck naked butt-ass naked butt-naked butt-stinking clothesless clothingless denuded exposed Harry starkers in all one's glory in a state of nature in one's birthday suit in puris naturalibus in the buff in the altogether in the nuddy in the nude in the pink in the raw in the scud kaalgat mother-naked naked naked as the day one was born naked as a jaybird nakers nakie nakes nakey nekkid nip nude nudie nudy rudy scud scuddy skyclad stark bollock naked stark naked starkers start naked stone naked unclothed undressed

Derived words

beclad black-clad demiclad heathclad ironclad mailclad moonclad multiclad overclad pineclad reclad scantily clad semiclad skyclad snowclad thinclad timber-clad timberclad tinclad unclad underclad cladded cladder cladding
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