indented
/ɪnˈdɛntɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.
adj
Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
verb
simple past and past participle of indent
Example Sentences
- "He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him; […]"
- "The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]"
- "a heavily indented coastline"
- "Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]"
- "So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd / In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve / Address'd his way, not with indented wave, / Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare, […]"
- "an indented border or ordinary"
Etymology
Etymology tree English indent Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English indented From indent + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more indented (comparative)
most indented (superlative)