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starchy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective starchy has 2 senses
- starchy(a = adj.all) Array - consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" Derived form noun starch1
- starchy(s = adj.all) buckram, stiff - rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
Antonym: starchless
CIDE DICTIONARY
starchy, a.
- Of or pertaining to starch. [PJC]
- Containing or consisting of starch; -- used especially of foods. [PJC]
- Resembling starch; stiff. [1913 Webster]
- Stiffened by use of starch; starched{1}; -- of clothing. [PJC]
- Formal in manner; precise. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
starchy, adj. (starchier, starchiest)
1 a of or like starch. b containing much starch.
2 (of a person) precise, prim.
1 a of or like starch. b containing much starch.
2 (of a person) precise, prim.
Derivative
starchily adv. starchiness n.
THESAURUS
starchy
adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, mucilaginous, pasty, pokerlike, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starched, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, thickened, tight, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unrelaxed, virgate, viscid, viscose, viscous
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