hooded

[hood-id]

adjective

1. having, or covered with, a hood.

   a hooded jacket.

2. having the shape of a hood; hood-shaped.

3. Zoology.,  having on the head a hoodlike formation, crest, arrangement of colors, or the like.

4. Botany.,  cucullate.

hooded

/ ˈhʊdɪd /

adjective

1. covered with, having, or shaped like a hood

2. (of eyes) having heavy eyelids that appear to be half closed

Other Word Forms

• hoodedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hooded¹

First recorded in 1400–50, hooded is from the late Middle English word hodid. See hood ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

They were held by "hooded and armed" members of an elite military force and taken to "an unknown destination", the statement added.

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“In the photo, Melodee is wearing a hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up and what appears to be a wig that is darker and straighter than her natural hair,” the office said.

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The man, who appeared to be wearing a hooded sweater, stumbled backward after falling off the center divider.

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Davis now rests on his side in a room with a group of chilling photographs taken by Andres Serrano of hooded Ku Klux Klan leaders in Georgia.

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"Delinquents, some of whom were hooded, attacked the embassy with incendiary devices, explosives and arrows," said Bogota Mayor Carlos Fernando Galan.

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