Hooded

How to spell hooded

6 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce hooded

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does hooded mean?

1. adjectiveHaving or covered by a hood, or shaped like a hood.
2. adjectiveOf the eyes: partly covered by drooping upper lids, giving a sleepy or guarded look.

Hooded in a sentence

• The rain jacket came with a hooded collar for bad weather.

• Her hooded eyes made her look tired during the long meeting.

• A hooded figure waited near the station entrance.

• The portrait showed a man with heavy, hooded eyes.

Where does hooded come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This word grows from the Old English noun 'hod', which named a soft covering for the head and neck, the kind monks and travellers once wore. That noun traces back to a Germanic root shared with the modern word 'hat', both pointing to an old idea of something that covers or shelters. The adjective form 'hooded' simply adds the participle ending -ed to mean 'fitted with a hood' or 'having a hood-like shape', a pattern English has used freely since the medieval period. Over time the sense broadened from literal garments to anything resembling a hood, including the markings of certain birds and snakes and the heavy-lidded look of sleepy eyes. The spelling keeps the doubled 'o' of the root and adds only a single 'd' before the ending, since the base 'hood' already ends in d.

How the word is built

• hood (Old English hod: a covering for the head)
• -ed (adjective/past participle suffix)