MATT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matt mean? 

• MATT (noun)
  The noun MATT has 1 sense:

1. the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

  Familiarity information: MATT used as a noun is very rare.

• MATT (adjective)
  The adjective MATT has 1 sense:

1. not reflecting light; not glossy

  Familiarity information: MATT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flatness; lusterlessness; lustrelessness; mat; matt; matte

Hypernyms ("matt" is a kind of...):

dullness (a lack of visual brightness)

Derivation:

matt (not reflecting light; not glossy)

• MATT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not reflecting light; not glossy

Synonyms:

flat; mat; matt; matte; matted

Context example:

a photograph with a matte finish

Similar:

dull (emitting or reflecting very little light)

Derivation:

matt (the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss)

 Context examples 

Matt made a couple of steps toward White Fang, but the latter slid away from him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt stood staring along the sights at the empty space of snow which had been occupied by White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt did that, it was his business; yet White Fang divined that it was his master's food he ate and that it was his master who thus fed him vicariously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt it was who tried to put him into the harness and make him haul sled with the other dogs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt followed with the lamp, and by its light they saw a man lying on his back in the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt was rolling the master's blankets and fur robe inside a small tarpaulin.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt took the rifle and began slowly to raise it to his shoulder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt, reached for the rifle, and at the same moment White Fang snarled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt bent over and passed his hand along White Fang's belly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Matt unsnapped the chain from the collar and stepped back.

(White Fang, by Jack London)