grooved
grooved is the simple past and past participle of groove.
Meaning of groove
Verb
groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)
- To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
- The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 186
- To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
- I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.
Adjective
grooved (comparative more grooved, superlative most grooved)
- Having one or more grooves.
- The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605
Forms of grooved
| comparative | more grooved |
|---|---|
| superlative | most grooved |
Words formed from grooved
Phrases with grooved
Questions about grooved
- What does grooved mean?
- Grooved means having one or more grooves.
- What is grooved the simple past and past participle of?
- Grooved is the simple past and past participle of groove.
- What part of speech is grooved?
- Grooved is an adjective.
Words near grooved in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grooved (page history and authors); groove (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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