sweatered

1. 1
   adjective

   Wearing a sweater, or dressed in one as a warm outer layer.

   The sweatered commuters huddled on the platform as the wind picked up.

   He arrived sweatered and scarved, ready for the long walk home.

   Note

   The -ed here turns a noun straight into an adjective, the same way bearded or gloved do: sweater plus a suffix for what someone has on. It is an either-or word, so a person is sweatered or not, never more sweatered than someone else. It sits comfortably before a noun (a sweatered crowd) and in descriptive pairs such as sweatered and scarved.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of sweater.

   Note

   Behind it stands a transitive verb made from the garment. To sweater someone is to dress them in one, and the verb always wants an object, even when that object is yourself (he sweatered himself). One spelling covers both the past and the participle: she sweatered the baby; she had sweatered the baby. After be, it blurs into the adjective for "wearing a sweater", which describes clothing rather than an act.

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