Clad

Quick meaning: Clad is a verb meaning (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

Meaning

(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

More Meanings

1. (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
2. (figurative) Adorned, ornamented.
3. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
4. (figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
5. (archaic) simple past and past participle of clothe
6. (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.

Example Sentences

Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.

Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene.

Love brought between my sheets a laughing lad / One night. Eighteen years old, he was half-clad / Like a young boy: what a sweet dream!

[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!

Word Forms

• clads
• cladding
• cladded

Synonyms for clad

Depending on context, synonyms include attired, beclad, raimented, aguised, clothed, dressed.

Antonyms for clad

Common opposites include unclad, bare, bare-assed, bare-bottomed, bare-bum, bare-butt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include garmented, habited, habilimented, dressed, togged, vestmented.

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