sodden
/ˈsɑ.dən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
Example Sentences
- "It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe."
- "The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden."
- "2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”"
- "In 2004, after heavy rain fell on sodden ground, floods put the line out of action from February until May."
- "The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]"
- "[…] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone."
Etymology
From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɑ.dən/
- British English: /ˈsɒ.dən/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more sodden (comparative)
most sodden (superlative)
soddens (present, singular)
soddening (participle, present)
soddened (participle, past)
soddened (past)