battered

Other forms of battered

comparative

batteredder·

superlative

battereddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about battered

What does battered mean?

battered means "damaged by blows or hard usage". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in battered?

battered has 2 syllables: bat-tered. The stress falls on "bat". In IPA it is /ˈbætɚd/.

What is another word for battered?

Close synonyms include beat-up, beaten-up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battered a common word?

battered is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.