matted (root: mat)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mat=ted

CIDE DICTIONARY

matted, a. [See Matte.].

 Having a dull surface; lusterless; unburnished; same as matte; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.  [1913 Webster]

Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.

matted, a. [See 3d Mat.].

•  Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

matted

Byzantine, balled up, bristly, bushy, cirrose, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, daedal, devious, disheveled, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fleecy, flocculent, fouled up, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lanate, loused up, many-faceted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, mussed up, perplexed, pilose, pubescent, ramified, roundabout, ruffled, rumpled, screwed up, shagged, shaggy, snaggy, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, tousled, tously, tumbled, twisted, uncombed, unshorn, woolly

ROGET THESAURUS

matted

Crossing

N crossing, intersection, interdigitation, decussation, transversion, convolution, level crossing, reticulation, network, inosculation, anastomosis, intertexture, mortise, net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace, wicker, mat, matting, plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle, tissue, netting, mokes, rivulation, cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot, entangle, cloth, linen, muslin, cambric, crossing, crossed, matted, v, transverse, cross, cruciform, crucial, retiform, reticular, reticulated, areolar, cancellated, grated, barred, streaked, textile, crossbarred, cruciate, palmiped, secant, web-footed, cross, thwart, athwart, transversely, at grade, crosswise.