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moted

moted adjective: filled with motes, or fine floating dust.

Adjective

moted (not comparable)

  1. Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.
    • [B]ut most she loath'd the hour / When the thick-moted sunbeam lay / Athwart the chambers, and the day / Was sloping toward his western bower.1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 14
    • The still air/To her astonished gaze grew all instinct,/Moted with airy forms for ever drawn/Up, by some genial influence.1856, Edith MAY (pseud. [i.e. Anna Drinkwater]), Poems ... Illustrated, etc. Edited, with a preface, by N. P. Willis, page 109

Verb capitalized: MOTed

MOTed

  1. (participle, past) simple past and past participle of MOT

Examples of moted in a sentence

  • The streets were warm with heavy-moted sunshine.1969, Edmund Schiddel, Good Time Coming:
  • Ensconced, God-like, in his enclosed cab high above the floor, the operator pilots that quiet flight through the dust-moted sun of the shed's interior2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page 39:
  • Sea-dreaming in the moted air,/A siren lithe and debonair2011, Golgotha Press, 10 Classic Epics, BookCaps Study Guides, →ISBN:

Origin of moted

From mote + -ed.

Questions about moted

What does moted mean?
Moted means filled with motes, or fine floating dust.
How do you use moted in a sentence?
The streets were warm with heavy-moted sunshine.
What part of speech is moted?
Moted can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near moted in the dictionary

  1. Motazilites
  2. Motcombe
  3. MOTD
  4. MOTDs
  5. mote
  6. moted
  7. motel
  8. moteled
  9. moteless
  10. motelier
  11. moteliers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moted (page history and authors); MOTed (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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