matted
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈmætɪd/
:
enredado
- I took more than a passing interest in him: noted his matted hair, his rough beard, his rumbling snores, and the small brown paper sack clutched to his chest like a prayer book.
- matted hair
- matted beard
And I couldn't come to work with this matted down, sweaty old helmet hair.
- And I couldn't come to work with this matted down, sweaty old helmet hair.
- She held my quaking, wailing body covered in sticky blood and my dark hair matted with green baby shit.
- And he had heroin balloons all matted up in his ass hair or he had obviously put them in there to hide them.
Examples
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Roy's matted brown hair and dingy t-shirt completed the ambiance of the ward room, as Roy referred to it, nicely.
Fiction book (1999) -
His long brown hair was as matted and tangled as usual and had never looked uglier.
Fiction book (2000) -
"I mean, don't you?" He brushes his matted hair out of his face.
Fiction book (1994) -
When Buster was brought into the shelter, he was wet, matted, and smelly.
Fiction book (1998) -
The millionaire's beard was as matted and gray as steel wool.
Fiction book (1997) -
She was filthy, matted, stunk to high heaven, skinny, and scared to death.
Blog text (10) -
She held one to Effy's nose while I dabbed the other against my sister's matted hair.
Fiction book (1991) -
Stifling a sigh, Talzani twisted Mark's head until it was flat against the pillow, ran his fingers through the matted hair until he found the cut in back.
Fiction book (1998) -
He felt the tap again in his tummy, the scratch, scratch of fear as he stared at the black back of his mother's matted curls, almost purple in the underwater hospital light.
Fiction book (1996) -
After being neglected for weeks, the rescue dog arrived at the vet covered in matted fur that clumped together in thick patches.
Synonyms
Tangled into messy knots that are hard to separate
Having thick, curly or matted hair like wool
Having rough, twisted bumps on wood or hands
Having hair or fabric that is messy and stuck together in clumps
Antonyms
How Tangled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Matted comes from the idea of a mat, 'a thick pad of hair or cloth'. So, when hair or fur is matted it is twisted and stuck together into a tight, tangled mass.