Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Wearing slippers: Describes a person whose feet are covered or shod with slippers, a type of comfortable, soft indoor footwear.

Usage

• The adjective slippered is used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like 'was' or 'felt') to describe the state of wearing slippers.
• It often conveys a sense of comfort, informality, or being at home.

Examples

• Attributive use:
  • The slippered feet made no sound on the wooden floor. (The feet wearing slippers were quiet.)
  • He enjoyed his slippered ease by the fireplace. (He enjoyed his comfortable state while wearing slippers.)
• Predicative use:
  • After a long day, she was gratefully slippered. (She was thankfully wearing slippers.)
  • The butler, though formally dressed, was slippered for comfort. (The butler wore slippers for comfort despite his formal attire.)

Advanced Usage

• Literary/Descriptive Use: Often used in literature to quickly establish a character's relaxed, domestic, or informal setting.
  • The slippered philosopher paced his book-lined study. (The philosopher, wearing slippers, walked in his study.)

Variants and Related Words

• Slipper (noun): A light, soft shoe worn indoors.
• Unshod (adjective): Not wearing any shoes or footwear; barefoot. (An antonym in context.)

Synonyms

• In slippers: A near-identical phrase.
• Casually shod: Wearing informal footwear. (A less specific synonym.)

Notes on Meaning

• The word specifically denotes wearing slippers. It does not describe the slippers themselves (e.g., 'a soft slipper').
• It is a relatively formal or literary word; in everyday speech, one might simply say "wearing slippers."

Adjective

1. shod with slippers