rayado

striped

adjective rrah-YAH-doh Rare

Also means

scratched

Usage Note

Rayado means marked with lines or stripes (papel rayado — lined paper), and also scratched (a surface). In colloquial Latin American Spanish estar rayado can mean 'to be obsessed' or 'to be unhinged'. The noun raya (f) means a line, stripe, or scratch, and is also the word for a parting in hair.

Examples

"El suelo estaba todo rayado."

Natural Translation

The floor was all scratched.

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