📖 Definitions of "Scrawled"
verb
- 1
To write something hastily or illegibly.
- 2
To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
- 3
To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
verb
- 1
To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things
adjective
- 1
Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.
"The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable."
🔄 Synonyms of "Scrawled"
1 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| written | Having been written. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Scrawled"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| written | Having been written. |
| rushedverb | Done in haste; done quickly or hastily. |
| slack-handednoun | Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative. |
| roughdrawn | Drawn or delineated rapidly and by way of a first sketch. |
| quick-and-dirtynoun | (idiomatic) Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time. |
| otiose | Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose. |
| half-assed | (slang, somewhat vulgar) Poorly or incompetently done; desultory. |
| quick-handed | Done quickly and efficiently. |
| drive-bynoun | Of a crime, etc.: carried out from a moving vehicle. |
| fast-handed | With hands that move very quickly. |
| extemporaneous | With inadequate preparation or without advance thought; offhand. |
| slangly | Using slang. |
| affabrous | (rare, poetic) Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. |
| helter-skelternoun | In confused, disorderly haste. |
| backhanded | Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory. |
| inartful | Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; ill-phrased; inexpedient |
| perfunctory | Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote. |
| ghostwritten | Written by a ghostwriter. |
| ad hoc | For a particular purpose. |
| brisk | Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action. |
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