IRONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ironed mean? 

• IRONED (adjective)
  The adjective IRONED has 1 sense:

1. (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron

  Familiarity information: IRONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron

Similar:

pressed (compacted by ironing)

smoothed; smoothened (made smooth by ironing)

Also:

smooth (having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities)

Antonym:

unironed ((of linens or clothes) not ironed)

 Context examples 

But don't tell me you never ironed before.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Hannah washed and ironed them for me, and I marked them all myself, said Beth, looking proudly at the somewhat uneven letters which had cost her such labor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But if there is a time when you are not meeting grand people, you can wear out your country things, for your brown coat is as good as new, and the blue one, if it were ironed and relined, would take you through the summer.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Send me away how you will and where you will; send keepers with me with whips and chains; let them take me in a strait-waistcoat, manacled and leg-ironed, even to a gaol; but let me go out of this.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a quarter of the time it would have taken her she saw the shirt-waist safely ironed, and ironed as well as she could have done it, as Martin made her grant.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Never ironed a rag in my life, honestly, until to-day," Martin protested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And after supper they worked until ten o'clock, under the blazing electric lights, until the last piece of under-clothing was ironed and folded away in the distributing room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By this means he ironed the yoke, wristbands, and neckband, setting the latter at right angles to the shirt, and put the glossy finish on the bosom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She cooked, and all ate, in the kitchen, where she likewise washed, starched, and ironed clothes on all days of the week except Sunday; for her income came largely from taking in washing from her more prosperous neighbors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)