rated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪd
• Hyphenation: rat‧ed

Adjective

rated (comparative more rated, superlative most rated)

1. (now rare) Scolded, rebuked. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.

   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Whitsuntide”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 131:

     [H]e merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.

2. (engineering) maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
3. (in combinations) Having a particular rating or rate

Hyponyms

• G-rated
• highest-rated
• human-rated
• overrated
• R-rated
• top-rated
• X-rated
• zero-rated

Derived terms

• nonrated
• underrated

Verb

rated

1. simple past and past participle of rate

Anagrams

• E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, tared, trade, tread