Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for addled

addled

[ ad-ld ]

adjective

  1. confused, especially mentally:

    Given her addled state, the police discounted much of what the witness had to say.

  2. (of an egg) not able to produce viable young:

    One of the nests had two chicks and two addled eggs.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of addle ( def ).

Discover More

Other Words From

  • un·ad·dled adjective

Discover More

Word History and Origins

Discover More

Example Sentences

It finally looks like New York, which is perpetually addled by traffic, will be constructing a new expressway.

Iggy's relatively mature response to this drug-addled drivel?

People worked all hours, often addled with booze and drugs, and casual sex was readily available.

Similarly irresistible to newscasters was the notion of drug-addled newborns—and warnings of a “crack baby” epidemic.

The context of you being a mixed-up, hormone-addled seventh-grader when you read it, alone in your bedroom.

But Colonel L'Estrange, who had been there about a fortnight before, found two addled eggs, but saw no birds.

I know ye make a dandy good district marshal, but ye are slippin'—goin' addled 'bout this funeral business.

His brain must be addled by having had too much to drink this morning.

Come, tell me in what decent tavern you have addled your brain?

Now in my poor addled brain I had an idea you were engaged for to-night at your aunt's, Lady Blackfriars'.

Advertisement

Related Words

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


addlebrainedaddlepated