drained

Other forms of drained

comparative

drainedder·

superlative

draineddest·

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 drained

What does drained mean?

drained means "emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drained?

drained has 1 syllable: drained. In IPA it is /ˈdɹeɪnd/.

What is another word for drained?

Close synonyms include knackered, dead. 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.

What is the opposite of drained?

The recorded antonyms are undrained.

Is drained a common word?

drained 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.