Meanings
adjectivebottomed (not comparable)
- in compoundsnot comparableHaving some specified type of bottom.
It was furnished with long, cane-bottomed chairs made in the jail […]
1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days1 more example
Just inside the railing that divided the spectators from the court, the witnesses sat on cowhide-bottomed chairs.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of bottom
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a bottom of a specified character
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰewbʰ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰudʰmḗn
- Proto-Germanic*butmaz
- Proto-West Germanic*botm
- Old Englishbotm
- Middle Englishbotme
- Englishbottom
- Englishbottomed
Translations
Finnish -peräinen
- -peräinenhaving specified kind of bottom
Cite this entry
APA
bottomed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottomed
MLA
“bottomed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottomed. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bottomed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottomed.
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