---

Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

damaged or ruined through burning or decay and left with a black color;

e.g. The rundown house was left alone for so long that it now looked blackened and haunted.

---

Similar Words

Bedraggled

Begrimed

Black

Blurred

Dingy

Dirty

Dusty

Filthy

Foul

Grimy

Grotty

Grubby

Grungy

Infected

Knotted

Mucky

Muddy

Nasty

Overcast

Slatternly

Smutty

Sordid

Squalid

Unbright

Unbrilliant

Unclean

Uncleanly

Uncombed

Unsanitary

---

Opposite Words

Ablaze

Abluted

Acclaimed

Agleam

Aglitter

Antiseptic

Beamed

Bedazzling

Blinding

Brushed

Burnt

Candescent

Chaste

Cleanly

Clear

Dazzling

Esteemed

Exalted

Exposed

Faded

Fair

Flashing

Flawless

Fulgent

Gemmy

Glancing

Immaculate

Incandescent

Lambent

Light

Limpid

Lit

Lucent

Lucid

Luminous

Lustrous

Moonlit

Neat

Ordered

Orderly

Perfect

Pristine

Pure

Radiant

Revered

Scintillant

Shining

Shiny

Spick-and-span

Splendid

Spotless

Squeaky-clean

Stainless

Sunlit

Superbright

Swept

Tidy

Twinkling

Ultrabright

Unblemished

Uncovered

Undefiled

Unpolluted

Unsoiled

Unspotted

Unstained

Unsullied

Untainted

Untouched

Unveiled

Virgin

Washed-out

Well-ordered

Wholesome

---

Related Words

Blemished

Blowsy

Chaotic

Cloudy

Concealed

Confused

Contaminated

Crocked

Degraded

Disheveled

Disordered

Disorderly

Dowdy

Dull

Faded

Frowsy

Fuliginous

Greasy

Hazy

Higgledy-piggledy

Impure

Insanitary

Lowering

Masked

Messy

Mussy

Overcast

Pell-mell

Pellmell

Scruffy

Scuzzy

Shabby

Skanky

Sleazy

Sloppy

Sloven

Slovenly

Sooty

Squalid

Tainted

Topsy-turvy

Touched

Unkempt

Unsanitary

Untidy

Unwashed

Upside

Upside down

Veiled

---

Comments

---

Company