Picked
/pɪkt/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of pick form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word) often
- 2 Chosen; selected.
- 3 Played by picking the strings
- 4 Having a pike or spine on the back.
"the picked dogfish"
- 5 fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty obsolete
"He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it."
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- 6 pointed; sharp obsolete
"[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold."
Example
More examples"The committee picked the site for the exhibition."