Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of raddle
comparative more raddled · superlative most raddled
- Worn-out and broken-down.
And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.
2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian1 more example
In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.
1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLCSynonyms: weak, deteriorated
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWorn-out and broken-down.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveshowing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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raddled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raddled
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