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UK
/mˈætɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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tangled in a dense mass
tried to push through the matted undergrowth -
not reflecting light; not glossy
flat wall paint
a photograph with a matte finish
How To Use matted In A Sentence
- He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
- My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
- Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
- For example, the content of a curriculum vita was reformatted to look like a letter, a dictionary and so on.
- His dark hair was matted with sweat, his expression strained and empty, the expression of release. Strangers In the Night
- Nae tawted tyke, though e'er sae duddie, [matted cur, ragged] Robert Burns How To Know Him
- Some website authoring software packages only allow you to entire plain, unformatted text.
- The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him.
- It was misty, close, everything intimate, the telegraph wires against thick creamy clouds like matted fleeces, the birds huddling. LOST CHILDREN
- Dislocation also occurred when Buddhist sutras and commentaries were cut up, dispersed, and sometimes reformatted in calligraphy model books (tekagami).