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picked

  • /pɪkt/

Rhymes with -ɪkt

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of pick

adjective more picked · most picked

  1. often, in combinations Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
  2. Chosen; selected. For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their f
  3. Played by picking the strings
  4. of fishes Having a pike or spine on the back. the picked dogfish
  5. obsolete fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  6. obsolete pointed; sharp […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: pickax, pickaxe, woof, weft, nibble, pluck, plunk, filling, cream, cull, break up, piece, foot, peck, beak, find fault

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@misc{picked_2026,
  title = {picked},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/picked},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}