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doughy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective doughy has 1 sense
- doughy(s = adj.all) soggy - having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess" Derived form noun dough1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
doughy, adj. (doughier, doughiest)
1 having the form or consistency of dough.
2 pale and sickly in colour.
1 having the form or consistency of dough.
2 pale and sickly in colour.
Derivative
doughiness n.
THESAURUS
doughy
adhesive, amylaceous, ashen, ashy, baccate, blanched, clabbered, clammy, clayey, clotted, coagulated, colorless, curdled, flabby, fleshy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, livid, loamy, lurid, macerated, masticated, mucilaginous, mushy, pallid, pasty, pithy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, succulent, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous, waxenROGET THESAURUS
doughy
Softness
N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.
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