addled

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

addled, adj.
1 (of an egg) rotten, producing no chick.
2 muddled.

Etymology

ADDLE adj., assim. to past part. form

THESAURUS

addled

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

ROGET THESAURUS

addled

Unproductiveness

N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.