matted

matted
Synonyms and related words:
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, woolly

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  • Matted — Mat ted, a. [See {Matte}.] Having a dull surface; lusterless; unburnished; same as {matte}; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. [1913 Webster] {Matted glass}, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Matted — Mat ted, a. [See 3d {Mat}.] 1. Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor. [1913 Webster] 2. Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • matted — matted; un·matted; …   English syllables

  • matted — matted1 [mat′id] adj. 1. closely tangled together in a dense mass [matted hair] 2. covered with a dense growth 3. covered with or enclosed in matting or mats matted2 [mat′id] adj. having a matte, or dull finish …   English World dictionary

  • matted — index inextricable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • matted — tangled and lying flat (of hair, etc.), 1610s, pp. adjective from MAT (Cf. mat) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • matted — [adj] tangled disordered, kinky, knotted, rumpled, snarled, tousled, twisted, uncombed; concept 606 Ant. unknotted, untangled …   New thesaurus

  • matted — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of hair or fur) tangled into a thick mass …   English terms dictionary

  • matted — mat|ted [ˈmætıd] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: MAT1] matted hair or fur is twisted or stuck together in a thick mass ▪ a cat with a dirty matted coat matted with ▪ Her hair was matted with blood …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Matted — Mat Mat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Matted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Matting}.] 1. To cover or lay with mats. Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 2. To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. [1913 Webster] And o er his eyebrows… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • matted — matted1 mattedly, adv. mattedness, n. /mat id/, adj. 1. covered with a dense growth or a tangled mass: a garden matted with weeds. 2. formed into a mat; entangled in a thick mass: matted hair. 3. formed of mats, or of plaited or woven material. 4 …   Universalium

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