coated
UK/ˈkəʊtɪd//ˈkoʊtɪd/
coated is the simple past and past participle of coat.
Adjective
coated (not comparable)
- Covered with a thin layer.
- Wearing a coat.
- I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son, the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day.1849 December, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. […]”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, number IX, Boston, Mass.: […] Coolidge & Wiley, […], page 51
- Was sitting on a molar cusp nibbling a remnant of dry toast, when I looked out and saw a white-coated man with a shiney instrument in his hand.1908, The Practical Dental Journal, page 2
- Synonyms:
- becoated
Meaning of coat
Verb
coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)
- To cover with a coating of some material.
- The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.
- To cover like a coat.
- To clothe.
Synonyms of coated
Words formed from coated
- biocoated
- black-coated
- coated felt sheet
- coated paper
- filmcoated
- Flat-coated Retriever
- frock-coated
- fur-coated
- multicoated
- nanocoated
- noncoated
- party-coated
- pea-coated
- pearl-coated
- powder-coated
- precoated
- Prince Albert-coated
- Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
- sugar coated
- sugarcoated
- sugar-coated
- tricoated
Phrases with coated
Words that rhyme with coated
Questions about coated
- What does coated mean?
- Coated means covered with a thin layer.
- What is coated the simple past and past participle of?
- Coated is the simple past and past participle of coat.
- What part of speech is coated?
- Coated is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce coated?
- Coated is pronounced /ˈkəʊtɪd/ (UK).
Words near coated in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coated (page history and authors); coat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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