forested

1. 1
   adjective

   Of an area of land, covered with forest.

   The deeply forested slopes provided shelter for elk and bears.

   Much of the region remained forested until logging began in the 1920s.

   Similarwooded, timbered

   Oppositetreeless, bare

   Note

   An adjective built straight from the noun, forest plus -ed, that describes land by what grows on it rather than by anything done to it. It grades like any adjective: more forested, most forested, deeply forested. That is the quickest way to tell it from the verb form, where someone planted the trees. It also stretches beyond landscapes to smaller spaces, such as large, forested enclosures built for macaques.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of forest.

   The government forested thousands of acres along the river.

   The slopes were forested with pine to slow erosion.

   Note

   Here someone does the foresting. The verb is transitive, meaning to plant an area with trees, so the participle naturally appears in passives and perfects: the slopes were forested, the state has forested the valley. The trees themselves are introduced with with, as in forested with pine. Only the planting meaning has a verb behind it. The noun's other uses, from graph theory to network domains, do not.

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