bedizenedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɪˈdaɪz(ə)nd/
• (General American) IPA: /bɪˈdaɪzənd/, /-ˈdɪ-/
• 韻: -aɪzənd, -ɪzənd
• ハイフネーション: be‧diz‧en‧ed

形容詞

bedizened (comparative more bedizened, superlative most bedizened)

1. (literary) Dressed or ornamented in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner; ostentatious.

   Synonym: gaudy

   • 1923, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Trial by Fire”, in Emily of New Moon, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, page 84:

     There was much whispering and plotting after she had gone in, a conference with some of the boys, and a handing over of bedizened pencils and chews of gum for value received.

   • [1943], Marjorie Barnard, “Arrow of Mistletoe”, in The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: The Clarendon Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 12:

     She wore only the subtlest touch of make up and round her delicate throat only a single string of pearls. Among the hundred bedizened women she was a rarity.

派生語

• unbedizened

動詞

bedizened

1. simple past and past participle of bedizen

別の表記

• bedisened