clad

1. (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.Examples: "[...] from his nook up leapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!"; "Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her."; "Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene."Synonyms: attired, beclad, raimented, aguised, beclad, clad, clothed, dressedAntonyms: unclad, clothed, decent, dressednot-comparable

2. (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.Examples: "On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]"; "Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]"; "The sun has gone down, and the water has gone down / From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises."in-compoundsnot-comparableoften

3. (figurative) Adorned, ornamented.figurativelynot-comparable

1. (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.Examples: "At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do fly."; "Muſicke and Poetry is his delight, / Therefore ile haue Italian Maskes by night, / Sweete ſpeeches, Comedies, and pleaſing ſhowes, / And in the day when he ſhall walke abroad, / Like Siluian Nimphs my Pages ſhall be clad, […]"; "But ſee the Sunne in ruſſet mantle clad, / Walkes ore the deaw of yon hie mountaine top, […]"archaicliteraryobsolete

2. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).Examples: "[M]any bitter and extreme frosts at midsummer continually clothe and clad the discomfortable mountaines; […]"; "He ſcarce had ſaid, when the bare Earth, till then / Deſert and bare, unſightly, unadorn'd, / Brought forth the tender Graſs whoſe verdure clad / Her Univerſal Face with pleaſant green, […]"; "But on the pale moon Eve now fix'd her gaze, / „Behold”, she said, „how cold and pale its face, / „Now Abel’s house it claddeth with its ray, / „And shineth now above Cain’s lonely way.”"

3. (figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.Examples: "Moſt mercifull father, we beſeche thee ſo to ſende vpon theſe thy ſeruauntes thy heauenly bleſſyng, that they maye be cladde about with all iuſtice, & that thy worde ſpoken by theyr mouthes, may haue ſuch ſucceſſe, that it may neuer be ſpoken in vain."; "O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad."; "The other day I was looking up some records of the Parliamentary Debates of the past, and I found my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee (Mr. [Dingle] Foot), who is now clad in all the majesty of a Minister and sits on the Treasury bench without regard to his murky past, moved a Motion on one of those pleasant Fridays to which I have referred, […]"figuratively