🏔️ Covered on top 🦷 With a dental crown

capped

5.1

A tooth with a man-made crown put on it

adjective
/kæpt/

Specialized

: coronado

She felt more confident after getting her capped teeth, which looked just like natural ones.

Examples

After losing his original teeth, he had capped teeth made to restore his smile.
Many people choose to have capped teeth for a more polished look at the dentist.
She did a weird AD for capped teeth, which I guess she's also had.

Synonyms

crowned

vscapped

Specialized

7.0

A tooth that has a hard cap to make it strong

is identical in meaning but is an alternative form

Antonyms

uncapped

1 5.3

Not covered by a protective cover or dental crown

Compounds

snow-capped

5 2.8

A mountain or hill with its top covered in snow

black-capped chickadee

1 8.5

A small North American bird with a black cap, white cheeks, and a gray body known for its clear call

capped macaque

Indian

9.9

A monkey with a small tuft of hair on its head that lives in northeastern India

How Restored

capped

Specialized

5.1

filled

1.0

untreated

8 3.3

Surface Forms

capped positive

Morphology

capped = cap (transparent) = cap + ed

Derived as the past-participial/adjectival form of 'cap' in the sense 'to put a cap/crown on (a tooth)', so the dental sense is directly built from that verb.

Etymology

The word capped comes from cap, which comes from the old Latin caput meaning 'head'. Dentists put a small 'cap' or 'crown' on a tooth like a tiny hat, so a 'capped' tooth is one that is covered on top to protect or improve it.