Pitted

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Showcasing a surface riddled with small indentations or voids
2. Having a surface covered with many small depressions or cavities
3. Displaying an area with numerous tiny hollows or pits across its face

Etymology: "Pitted" is the past form of "pit," so its history is that of the verb's source noun. "Pit" comes from Old English "pytt," a hollow in the ground, and it likely reached English from Latin "puteus," meaning a well or shaft. The sound changes along that route are hard to trace, so the link is probable rather than certain. The adjective grows directly from that sense of a hollow. Something pitted carries many small hollows across its surface, as in pitted metal, pitted teeth, or the pitted skin of an old orange.

Synonyms: dented, indented, marked, scarred, notched

Antonyms: smooth, flat, unmarked, clear, pristine