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Clothed vs Clad - What's the difference?

clothed | clad |

As verbs the difference between clothed and clad

is that clothed is past tense of clothe while clad is to clothe.

As an adjective clothed

is covered with a cloth.

clothed

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (clothe)

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Covered with a cloth.
    • a white-clothed table

    clad

    English

    Verb

  • To clothe.
    • The horse was clad with its best blanket.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
    • But what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, clad only in a thin bit of muslin which scarce covered her knees--a bit of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem.
  • To cover with insulation.
  • (clad)
  • (archaic) (clothe)

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies English irregular verbs