Matted - English meaning

adjective

Covered or marked with an unclean substance.

Usage examples:

A tray of dirty cups and saucers

adverb

Used for emphasis.

Usage examples:

A dirty great slab of stone

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

She didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels

adjective

(of a person's hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy; disordered.

Usage examples:

A man with long dishevelled hair

verb

Make (a person's hair or clothes) untidy.

Usage examples:

He ran one hand through his hair, further dishevelling it

verb

Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.

Usage examples:

Fish attempt to swim through the mesh and become entangled

verb

To trap something within something else from which it is difficult to escape

Usage examples:

A seal became entangled in the fishing net., fig. the movie explores the entangled (= mixed togethe…

verb

Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.

Usage examples:

Fish attempt to swim through the mesh and become entangled

verb

To trap something within something else from which it is difficult to escape

Usage examples:

A seal became entangled in the fishing net., fig. the movie explores the entangled (= mixed togethe…

adjective

Covered with felt.

Usage examples:

A felted roof

verb

Make into felt; mat together.

Usage examples:

The fibres are shredded and felted together

adjective

Covered with, resembling, or produced by grease or oil.

Usage examples:

He wiped his greasy fingers

adjective

Covered with or full of grease

Usage examples:

These french fries are too greasy.

noun

A fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it.

Usage examples:

Tie a knot at the end of the cord

verb

Fasten with a knot.

Usage examples:

The scarves were knotted loosely around their throats

noun

A small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.

Usage examples:

You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, usi…

adjective

Fastened with or having a knot or knots.

Usage examples:

A knotted rope

verb

Fasten with a knot.

Usage examples:

The scarves were knotted loosely around their throats

adjective

Joined by having been tied together in a knot, or containing a knot or knots

Usage examples:

A knotted rope, a knotted handkerchief

adjective

Full of knots.

Usage examples:

Panelling in knotty pine

adjective

(of a person or an article of clothing) smart and fashionable.

Usage examples:

A natty blue blazer

adjective

(among rastafarians) denoting hair that is uncombed or matted, as in dreadlocks.

Usage examples:

The hippie had natty blond hair, and large, vacant-looking eyes with wrinkles around them.

adjective

Stylish and tidy in every detail

Usage examples:

He's always been a natty dresser.

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a rat.

Usage examples:

His ratty eyes glittered

adjective

Feeling annoyed

Usage examples:

She was a bit ratty with me this morning., a ratty old blanket

verb

Untangle or unravel something.

Usage examples:

Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net

noun

A tangle, cluster, or knot.

Usage examples:

A ravel of knitting

verb

To separate a knot, mass of threads, etc. into a single thread or threads

Usage examples:

It took daisy a long time to ravel out all the wool., mark's interference merely ravelled things fu…

verb

Twist together into a confused mass.

Usage examples:

The broom somehow got tangled up in my long skirt

noun

A confused mass of something twisted together.

Usage examples:

A tangle of golden hair

noun

Any of a number of brown seaweeds, especially oarweed.

Usage examples:

An entirely natural extract, it is based on seaweed or tangle, widely available around scotland's s…

adjective

Twisted together untidily; matted.

Usage examples:

His hair was a tangled mess

verb

Twist together into a confused mass.

Usage examples:

The broom somehow got tangled up in my long skirt

adjective

Twisted into a messy mass of things

Usage examples:

She ran a hand through her tangled hair., the whole issue is getting too tangled (= confused).

adjective

In an untidy or badly organized state in which things or parts are not kept separate from each other

Usage examples:

The young trees grow through all sorts of tangly grass and undergrowth., my hair always looks great…

adjective

(of hair) untidy.

Usage examples:

She wore her hair in tousled curls

verb

Make (a person's hair) untidy.

Usage examples:

I tousled his wispy silver hair

adjective

(esp. of hair) looking messy

Usage examples:

She ran her fingers through her tousled hair.

adjective

(of a person's hair) not combed.

Usage examples:

His hair was matted and uncombed

adjective

(especially of a person) having an untidy or dishevelled appearance.

Usage examples:

They were unwashed and unkempt