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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. provided with a worthy adversary or competitor;
- Example: "matched teams"

2. going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

matched adj 1: provided with a worthy adversary or competitor; "matched teams" 2: going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities [ant: mismatched]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "matched": 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