matted

English

Verb

matted

1. simple past and past participle of mat

Adjective

matted (comparative more matted, superlative most matted)

1. Forming a thick tangled mess.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]

2. Covered with mats or matting.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library […]

Derived terms

• matted glass
• nonmatted
• unmatted

Translations

forming a thick tangled mess

• Bulgarian: сплъстен (bg) (splǎsten)
• German: verfilzt (de)
• Italian: aggrovigliato (it), arruffato (it), ingarbugliato (it), infeltrito (it)
• Maori: rirapa, rīraparapa
• Portuguese: emaranhado (pt)
• Russian: спутанный (ru) (sputannyj)

covered with mats or matting

• Bulgarian: матиран (bg) (matiran)
• Italian: coperto di stuoie, fatto a stuoia