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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AD'DLED, a. Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
2: confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of an egg) rotten, producing no chick. 2 muddled. Etymology: ADDLE adj., assim. to past part. form

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Addle Ad"dle, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled; p. pr. & vb. n. Addling.] To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. ``Their eggs were addled.'' --Cowper.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as addled, you mean that they are confused or unable to think properly. You're talking like an addled romantic. = befuddled ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See addle.

Moby Thesaurus

addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted, blear-witted, blind drunk, buffaloed, cloudy, confounded, crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, floored, flustered, fogged, foggy, fou, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, in a dilemma, in a fog, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, licked, maudlin, mellow, merry, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, mystified, nappy, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, puzzleheaded, reeling, scramblebrained, shikker, sodden, sotted, stuck, stumped, thrown, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence