HALF-CLOTHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-clothed mean? 

• HALF-CLOTHED (adjective)
  The adjective HALF-CLOTHED has 1 sense:

1. inadequately clothed

  Familiarity information: HALF-CLOTHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-CLOTHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inadequately clothed

Synonyms:

half-clothed; scantily clad; underclothed

Similar:

unclothed (not wearing clothing)

 Context examples 

During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But then, strange to say, when I stood with my ragged shoes, and my dusty, sunburnt, half-clothed figure, in the place so long desired, it seemed to vanish like a dream, and to leave me helpless and dispirited.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)