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texted

/tɛkstɪd/

texted is the simple past and past participle of text.

Meaning of text

Verb

text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (colloquial) text)

  1. (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
    • Just text me when you get here.
    Synonyms:
    message, SMS
  2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
    • Have you been texting all afternoon?
  3. (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
    • I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1

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Adjective

texted (not comparable)

  1. Accompanied by text.
    • However, it wasn't the particulars that I learned from Lewin in studying texted music that mattered most: […]2024, Michael Cherlin, Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry
    Antonyms:
    untexted

Antonyms of texted

Phrases with texted

Questions about texted

What does texted mean?
Texted means accompanied by text.
What is texted the simple past and past participle of?
Texted is the simple past and past participle of text.
What part of speech is texted?
Texted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce texted?
Texted is pronounced /tɛkstɪd/.

Words near texted in the dictionary

  1. textbooklike
  2. textbooks
  3. textbooky
  4. textbox
  5. textboxes
  6. texted
  7. texteme
  8. textemes
  9. textemic
  10. texter
  11. texters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: texted (page history and authors); text (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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