Meaning & use
gloved
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Meanings
adjectivebefore a noun
Wearing a glove or gloves.
Grammar: Most often placed before the noun: a gloved hand, not a hand gloved.
Patterns
- a gloved hand
- gloved fingers
The surgeon held out a gloved hand for the scalpel.
He wiped the frost from the window with a gloved finger.
A gloved fist pounded the door.
verbtransitiverare
Past tense and past participle of glove: to cover the hands with gloves.
Grammar: Takes an object, and is rare: she gloved her hands.
Patterns
- glove your hands
She gloved her hands before touching the old photographs.
The nurse gloved up before examining the wound.
The chef gloved and began to slice the peppers.
Word forms
| base form | glove |
|---|---|
| third person singular | gloves |
| past tense | gloved |
| -ing form | gloving |
Common combinations
- a gloved hand
- A gloved hand reached through the gap in the fence.
- gloved fingers
- His gloved fingers could barely hold the pen.
- gloved fist
- The boxer raised a gloved fist.
- gloved and masked
- The staff were gloved and masked.
- gloved up
- The workers gloved up before handling the chemicals.
Synonyms and how they differ
- mittened
- Mittened is narrower and refers to wearing mittens rather than gloves.
- gauntleted
- Gauntleted is rare and literary, and suggests armored or heavy gloves.
- hand-covered
- Hand-covered is a plain description, whereas gloved names the exact item.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: gloved or glued?
gloved vs glued
Glued means stuck with adhesive, and the spelling is close but the meaning is different.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'gloved' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Gloved means wearing a glove, so a gloved hand knocking fits. The other options attach gloved to the sky, soup or music, which cannot wear gloves.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “gloved”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.