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• past participle of hood.
• past tense form of hood.

hooded

American  

[hood-id] / ˈhʊd ɪd /

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.

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hooded British  

/ ˈhʊdɪd /

adjective

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

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

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Other Word Forms

• hoodedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of hooded

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

Example Sentences

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hooded

Walking down a makeshift runway in a top-floor studio, a model pulls on a translucent, hooded jacket embedded with LED lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

Tall, a lawyer, was taken on May 2 in Bamako by hooded men, his family said.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

It opened with a lone hooded figure running onto the stage holding a red flare as fans chanted "BTS, BTS, BTS".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Patel has shown up to events in hooded sweatshirts and sneakers and sometimes wears a badge despite not being a special agent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

It was the month of Hathor in the Season of Growing, and the air was cool despite the heat from the hooded furnaces that lined the courtyard.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw