Word Study
fruity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fruity has 2 senses
- fruity(s = adj.all) Array - tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit; Array Derived form noun fruit1
- fruity(s = adj.all) around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fruity, adj. (fruitier, fruitiest)
1 a of fruit. b tasting or smelling like fruit, esp. (of wine) tasting of the grape.
2 (of a voice etc.) of full rich quality.
3 colloq. full of rough humour or (usu. scandalous) interest; suggestive.
1 a of fruit. b tasting or smelling like fruit, esp. (of wine) tasting of the grape.
2 (of a voice etc.) of full rich quality.
3 colloq. full of rough humour or (usu. scandalous) interest; suggestive.
Derivative
fruitily adv. fruitiness n.
THESAURUS
fruity
ambrosial, aromatic, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, botanic, buggy, bughouse, bugs, bulbous, cereal, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, essenced, farinaceous, flaky, flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavory, flipped, flowery, fragrant, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruitlike, full-bodied, full-flavored, gaga, goofy, haywire, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, incense-breathing, just plain nuts, kooky, leguminose, leguminous, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, maniac, mental, mindless, musky, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, perfumed, perfumy, plantlike, potty, radicated, radiciform, radicular, redolent, rhizoid, rich, rich-flavored, rootlike, round the bend, savory, scented, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, thuriferous, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, wacky, weedy
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