begrimed

Questions about begrimed

What does begrimed mean?

begrimed means "thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot".

How many syllables are in begrimed?

begrimed has 2 syllables and divides as be-grimed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for begrimed?

Close synonyms include dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy. 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 begrimed a common word?

begrimed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.