fitted sheet

1. 1.

   a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress

   Synonymscontour sheet

   Broadersheet

Questions about fitted sheet

What does fitted sheet mean?

fitted sheet means "a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress".

What is another word for fitted sheet?

Close synonyms include contour sheet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fitted sheet a common word?

fitted sheet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.