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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.

textile: any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or...
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Noun

textile (plural textiles)

  1. (plural-normally) Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.
    • Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
    Synonyms:
    fabric, material, cloth
  2. A non-nudist.
    Antonyms:
    nudist, naturist

Adjective

textile (comparative more textile, superlative most textile)

  1. 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
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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.

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Antonyms

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Forms of textile

Noun
pluraltextiles
Adjective
comparativemore textile
superlativemost textile

Plural of textile: textiles

Origin of textile

Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

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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

  1. texthookers
  2. textident
  3. textidents
  4. textie
  5. texties
  6. textile
  7. textile art
  8. textile arts
  9. textile banana
  10. textile bananas
  11. textile cone

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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