'Matched' definitions:
Definition of 'matched'
From: WordNet
adjective
Provided with a worthy adversary or competitor; "matched teams"
adjective
Going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities [ant: mismatched]
Definition of 'Matched'
From: GCIDE
- Match \Match\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched; p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.]
- 1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal. [1913 Webster]
- No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal. [1913 Webster]
- No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against. [1913 Webster]
- Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth. "Matching of patterns and colors." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another). [1913 Webster]
- Let poets match their subject to their strength. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To marry; to give in marriage. [1913 Webster]
- A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards. [1913 Webster]
- Matching machine, a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'matched'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adapted,
- allied,
- assembled,
- associated,
- balanced,
- banded together,
- biconjugate,
- biform,
- bifurcated,
- bigeminate,
- bijugate,
- bilateral,
- bipartisan,
- bipartite,
- bound,
- bracketed,
- collected,
- conformable,
- conjoined,
- conjugate,
- conjugated,
- connected,
- coordinated,
- copulate,
- coupled,
- dichotomous,
- double,
- duadic,
- dual,
- dualistic,
- duplex,
- duplicated,
- dyadic,
- fitted,
- gathered,
- hand-in-glove,
- hand-in-hand,
- harmonized,
- identical,
- incorporated,
- integrated,
- intimate,
- joined,
- knotted,
- leagued,
- linked,
- married,
- mated,
- merged,
- one,
- paired,
- partnered,
- similar,
- spliced,
- suited,
- tied,
- twain,
- twin,
- twinned,
- two,
- two-sided,
- undivided,
- united,
- unseparated,
- wedded,
- yoked
Words containing 'Matched'
- Match,
- Matching,
- Bickford match,
- Congreve match,
- Love match,
- Match boarding,
- Match game,
- Match plane,
- Match plate,
- Match play,
- Match tub,
- Match wheel,
- Matching machine,
- Parlor match,
- Pattern matching,
- Percussion match,
- Quick match,
- Safety match,
- Slow match,
- Slugging match,
- Spelling match,
- book matches,
- boxing match,
- chess match,
- cricket match,
- friction match,
- kitchen match,
- lucifer match,
- match box,
- match hook,
- match point,
- match-up,
- matched game,
- matching funds,
- sparring match,
- tennis match,
- test match,
- wrestling match,
- Match-cloth,
- Match-coat,
- cross-match,
- statistical pattern matching,
- syntactic pattern matching,
- text-matching