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commented

Syllables: com·ment·edUK/ˈkɒmɛntɪd/US/ˈkɑmɛntɪd/

commented is the simple past and past participle of comment.

Meaning of comment

Verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

  1. (transitive) To remark.
    • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
    • He commented about your proposal.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To comment or remark on.
    • […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy
  4. (transitive) To insert comments into (source code).
    • I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
  5. (transitive) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

See all 9 meanings of comment

Words formed from commented

Phrases with commented

Questions about commented

What is commented the simple past and past participle of?
Commented is the simple past and past participle of comment.
How do you pronounce commented?
Commented is pronounced /ˈkɑmɛntɪd/ (US).

Words near commented in the dictionary

  1. commentatour
  2. commentatours
  3. commentatress
  4. commentatresses
  5. commentatrix
  6. commented
  7. commented out
  8. commenter
  9. commenters
  10. commenting
  11. commenting out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commented (page history and authors); comment (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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