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matt (comparative more matt, superlative most matt)

1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of matte.
   • 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 250:

     Outside the sky was low and hard and cold, with a matt texture I recognized from when I'd lived around here.

matt (plural matts)

1. (film) Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”).
2. Alternative spelling of mat (“an alloy in coppersmithing”).
3. Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”).

matt (third-person singular simple present matts, present participle matting, simple past and past participle matted)

1. Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”).

From Middle Low German matte, from Late Latin matta.

matt (genitive mati, partitive matti)

1. mat (small rug)

From German matt.

matt (genitive mati, partitive matti, comparative matim, superlative kõige matim)

1. matte (dull)

Ultimately from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).

matt (genitive mati, partitive matti)

1. (chess) checkmate

• “matt”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• matt in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Middle High German mat, with influence from Old French mat (“in checkmate”), a clipping of French échec et mat (“checkmate”), and French mat (“matt; pale”).

• IPA^(key): /mat/
• Rhymes: -at

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matt (strong nominative masculine singular matter, comparative matter, superlative am mattesten)

1. dull (not shiny)
2. exhausted, weak, feeble (not lively, vigorous, energetic)
   • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 624:

     Während der langen Heimfahrt senkte sich allmählich eine matte Stimmung über die sonst so unermüdlich frohe Gesellschaft.

     During the long trip home, gradually a feeble mood came down on the otherwise so tirelessly cheery group.

• → Polish: mat

• schachmatt
• mattsetzen

• “matt” in Duden online
• “matt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Proto-Finnic *matadak.

matt

1. (Salaca) creep

• IPA^(key): /mɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt
• Homophone: Matt

matt (masculine matten, neuter matt, comparative méi matt, superlative am mattsten)

1. matte, dull, wan
2. feeble, weary

matt

1. alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

matt

1. alternative form of mat (“tired”)

From French mat and German matt.

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattere, indefinite superlative mattest, definite superlative matteste)

1. (colour) dull, matt
2. weak, feeble, listless
3. (chess) checkmated
4. (glass) frosted

• “matt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French mat and German matt.

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattare, indefinite superlative mattast, definite superlative mattaste)

1. (colour) dull, matt
2. weak, feeble, listless
3. (chess) checkmated
4. (glass) frosted

• “matt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Compare German matt.

matt

1. weak, faint

• IPA^(key): /mat/

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matt (comparative mattare, superlative mattast)

1. weak, listless
2. (of colours) matte
3. (chess) checkmate, in the phrase göra någon matt

• (of colours): blank

• mattsvart
• schack matt

• mätt
• matta

• matt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• matt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• matt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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