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matted (root: mat)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective matted has 2 senses
- matted(s = adj.all) Array - tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth"
- matted(s = adj.all) flat, mat, matt, matte - not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
CIDE DICTIONARY
matted, a. [See Matte.].
Having a dull surface; lusterless; unburnished; same as matte; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. [1913 Webster]
matted, a. [See 3d Mat.].
- Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor. [1913 Webster]
- Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
matted
Byzantine, balled up, bristly, bushy, cirrose, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, daedal, devious, disheveled, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fleecy, flocculent, fouled up, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lanate, loused up, many-faceted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, mussed up, perplexed, pilose, pubescent, ramified, roundabout, ruffled, rumpled, screwed up, shagged, shaggy, snaggy, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, tousled, tously, tumbled, twisted, uncombed, unshorn, woollyROGET THESAURUS
matted
Crossing
N crossing, intersection, interdigitation, decussation, transversion, convolution, level crossing, reticulation, network, inosculation, anastomosis, intertexture, mortise, net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace, wicker, mat, matting, plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle, tissue, netting, mokes, rivulation, cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot, entangle, cloth, linen, muslin, cambric, crossing, crossed, matted, v, transverse, cross, cruciform, crucial, retiform, reticular, reticulated, areolar, cancellated, grated, barred, streaked, textile, crossbarred, cruciate, palmiped, secant, web-footed, cross, thwart, athwart, transversely, at grade, crosswise.
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