rated

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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Hyphenation: rat‧ed

Adjective

rated (comparative more rated, superlative most rated)

(now rare) Scolded, rebuked.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC:
  He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.
(engineering) maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
(in combinations) Having a particular rating or rate

Hyponyms

Verb

rated

simple past and past participle of rate

Anagrams

E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, tared, trade, tread

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