seated
/ˈsiːtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt.
verb
simple past and past participle of seat
Example Sentences
- "... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back."
- ""Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?"
- "There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained."