adj · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK:/ˈsɒ.dən/
General-American:/ˈsɑ.dən/
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rhymes with -ɒdən
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
adj
Meaning 2
Boiled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
adj
Meaning 3
Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
adj
Meaning 4
Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445, Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
To drench, soak or saturate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
verb
Meaning 6
To become soaked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
wet through and through; thoroughly wet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain
the speaker's sodden collar
soppy clothes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: soppy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
намокрен
(namokren)
— soaked
Bulgarian:
пропит
(propit)
— soaked
Czech:
nasáklý
— soaked
Czech:
prosáklý
— soaked
Czech:
promočený
— soaked
Dutch:
doordrenkt
— soaked
Esperanto:
tramalsekigita
— soaked
Finnish:
läpimärkä
— soaked
French:
détrempé
— soaked
German:
durchnässt
— soaked
German:
aufgeweicht
— soaked
Greek:
μουσκεμένος
(mouskeménos)
— soaked
Irish:
báite
— soaked
Irish:
ar maos
— soaked
Italian:
fradicio
— soaked
Latin:
madidus
— soaked
Māori:
pūpūwai
— soaked
Māori:
pī
— soaked
Māori:
haruwai
— soaked
Māori:
waiwai
— soaked
Māori:
pōteretere
— soaked
Plautdietsch:
derchjenat
— soaked
Polish:
podmokły
— soaked
Polish:
przesiąknięty
— soaked
Polish:
rozmokły
— soaked
Polish:
przemoczony
— soaked
Portuguese:
encharcado
— soaked
Russian:
промо́кший
(promókšij)
— soaked
Slovak:
zmáčaný
— soaked
Slovak:
premočený
— soaked
Spanish:
empapado
— soaked
Swedish:
genomblöt
— soaked
Swedish:
genomdränkt
— soaked
Swedish:
genomvåt
— soaked
Czech:
opilecký
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
Dutch:
stomdronken
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
Finnish:
umpihumalainen
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
French:
bourré
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
French:
saoul
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
German:
sturzbetrunken
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
German:
sturzbesoffen
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
Polish:
otępiały
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
Polish:
zamroczony
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
Russian:
отупе́вший
(otupévšij)
— stupid as a result of drunkenness
Bulgarian:
накисвам
(nakisvam)
— to drench, soak or saturate
Bulgarian:
намокрям
(namokrjam)
— to drench, soak or saturate
Dutch:
doorweekt raken
— to drench, soak or saturate
Polish:
przemaczać
— to drench, soak or saturate
Polish:
przemoczyć
— to drench, soak or saturate
Polish:
rozmaczać
— to drench, soak or saturate
Polish:
rozmoczyć
— to drench, soak or saturate
Portuguese:
encharcar
— to drench, soak or saturate
Russian:
промачивать
(promačivatʹ)
— to drench, soak or saturate
Swedish:
genomdränka
— to drench, soak or saturate
Swedish:
genomblöta
— to drench, soak or saturate
Bulgarian:
намокрям се
(namokrjam se)
— to become soaked
