textile
UK/ˈtɛk.staɪl/
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Australia/ˈtek.stɑel/
textile noun: any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.

Noun
textile (plural textiles)
- Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.
- Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
- A non-nudist.
Adjective
textile (comparative more textile, superlative most textile)
- Clothing compulsive.
- a textile beach
textile meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
textile in Tamil
- நெசவம், நெசவு சார்ந்த, நெய்த, நெய்பொருள், ஆடைவகை
textile in Bengali
- বয়নসংক্রান্ত
textile in Malayalam
- നെയ്തുണ്ടാക്കിയ തുണിത്തരം, നെയ്ത്തിനെ സംബന്ധിച്ച
textile in Kannada
- ಬಟ್ಟೆ, ವಸ್ತ್ರ, ಜವಳಿ, ಅರಿವೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- textile in Odia
- ବଯ଼ନଶିଳ୍ପ
Examples of textile in a sentence
- The fibers of this nonwoven textile disassociated when I tried to wash it.
- Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.
- Some textile fabrics have little substance.
Synonyms of textile
Antonyms
Forms of textile
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | textiles |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more textile |
| superlative | most textile |
Origin of textile
Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).
Words formed from textile
Phrases with textile
Words that rhyme with textile
Questions about textile
- What does textile mean?
- Textile means any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.
- What is textile in Tamil?
- Textile in Tamil is நெசவம், நெசவு சார்ந்த, நெய்த. See Textile meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is textile?
- Textile can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce textile?
- Textile is pronounced /ˈtɛk.staɪl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of textile?
- The plural of textile is textiles.
Words near textile in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: textile (page history and authors); textile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); textile (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); textile (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); textile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); textile (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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