Bedraggled means wet, dirty and untidy. A bedraggled figure, bedraggled feathers, arrive bedraggled.
All three parts are needed: something bedraggled has been out in the weather and looks it. It is used affectionately about people arriving from the rain, and it is a favourite word for describing a dog after a walk.
1adjectivebedraggledWet, dirty and untidy.
“The cat came in from the storm looking bedraggled and miserable.”
bedraggled is a state.
From bedraggle + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA