rated
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪd/
- Hyphenation: rat‧ed
Adjective
rated (comparative more rated, superlative most rated)
- (now rare) Scolded, rebuked. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:
- He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley:
- He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:
- (engineering) maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
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- human-rated
- top-rated
- X-rated
Verb
rated
- simple past tense and past participle of rate
Anagrams
- E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, tared, trade, tread