ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ironed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Ironed is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of iron.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of iron.

More Meanings

  1. Proivided with, or strengthened by, iron; shod with iron.
  2. That has been put in irons; shackled.
  3. That has been pressed or smoothed with a hot iron; pressed.
  4. (Of hair) Treated as with a hair iron; curled with a curling iron, or straightened with a straightening-iron or with electric straighteners.
  5. (obsolete) Made of iron.

Example Sentences

[T]he ironed convict, dragging his tree trunk to the summit edge of some beetling plateau, looks down upon a sea of fog, through which rise mountain-tops like islands […].

Synonyms for ironed

Depending on context, synonyms include pressed, smoothed, smoothened.

Antonyms for ironed

Common opposites include wrinkled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pressed, smoothed, smoothened, resolved, settled, ironclad.

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