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

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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The hooded seal has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered, while the bearded and harp seals are now Near Threatened due to shrinking sea ice.

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But these don't seem to be hooded gangsters armed with weapons.

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