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unmatted

unmatted is the simple past and past participle of unmat.

Meaning of unmat

Verb

unmat (third-person singular simple present unmats, present participle unmatting, simple past and past participle unmatted)

  1. (transitive) To restore (hair, fur, etc.) from a matted state.
    Synonyms:
    demat

Adjective

unmatted (comparative more unmatted, superlative most unmatted)

  1. Not matted.
    • Instead of spending hours untangling hair, they could bond with friendly conversation (“Your hair looks so unmatted today!”) or by picking apart someone else’s behavior (“Yeah, he was supposed to share the wildebeest, but I heard he kept both haunches”).2007 October 16, John Tierney, “Facts Prove No Match for Gossip, It Seems”, in New York Times

Forms of unmatted

comparativemore unmatted
superlativemost unmatted

Origin of unmatted

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From un- + matted.

Questions about unmatted

What does unmatted mean?
Unmatted means not matted.
What is unmatted the simple past and past participle of?
Unmatted is the simple past and past participle of unmat.
What part of speech is unmatted?
Unmatted is an adjective.

Words near unmatted in the dictionary

  1. unmatriculated
  2. unmatrimonial
  3. unmatronlike
  4. unmatronly
  5. unmats
  6. unmatted
  7. unmatting
  8. unmature
  9. unmatured
  10. unmaturely
  11. unmaturing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmatted (page history and authors); unmat (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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