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Unmatted vs Matted - What's the difference?

unmatted | matted | Derived terms |

Matted is a derived term of unmatted.



As adjectives the difference between unmatted and matted

is that unmatted is not matted while matted is forming a thick tangled mess.

As a verb matted is

past tense of mat.

unmatted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not matted.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 16, author=John Tierney, title=Facts Prove No Match for Gossip, It Seems, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Instead of spending hours untangling hair, they could bond with friendly conversation (“Your hair looks so unmatted today!”) or by picking apart someone else’s behavior (“Yeah, he was supposed to share the wildebeest, but I heard he kept both haunches”). }}

    matted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mat)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • forming a thick tangled mess
  • * 1899 ,
    • 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 [...]
  • covered with mats or matting

    • Derived terms

    * nonmatted * unmatted