🏠 Covered with plaster 🍻 Very drunk 💇 Hair flat and sticky

plastered

5.2

Hair made smooth and flat by gel

adjective
/ˈplæstərd/

: aplacado

His dark hair was plastered back with gel for the party.

Examples

He preferred the classic look, with every strand plastered into place.
His hair was plastered down with gel.
After walking in the rain, her hair became plastered to her forehead.
She likes her hair plastered flat and shiny.
He styled his hair so that it was perfectly plastered to his head with gel.
For the photo shoot, she had her hair plastered back meticulously to avoid any flyaways.
After applying the pomade, his hair looked shiny and plastered to his scalp.

Synonyms

slicked

vsplastered

1 5.7

People smooth hair and make it shiny using gel or oil

is flattened deliberately to lie very close to the head

waxed

vsplastered

3.2

Covered with a thin shiny layer to make a smooth surface

uses sticky pomade or gel to make hair flat rather than waxy

Antonyms

messy

233 1.0

Not tidy or clean, with things in the wrong place

How Slick

plastered

5.2

neat

144 1.0

uncombed

2 3.0

Surface Forms

plastered positive

Morphology

plastered = plaster (transparent) = plaster + ed

Adjectival/past-participle formation from the verb 'plaster' used metaphorically for hair made flat by product; learners can map the literal action to the hair context.

Etymology

The hair sense of plastered comes from the same idea: a sticky substance 'stuck' hair flat to the head, much like plaster smooths a wall. So hair that is plastered is pressed and held 'flat'.