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Plummy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Filled with plums.

adj. Smelling or tasting of plums.

adj. Choice; desirable: a plummy leading role; a plummy job.

adj. Exceedingly or affectedly mellow and rich: a plummy voice.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of plums

adj. desirable; profitable; advantageous

adj. rich, mellow and carefully articulated, especially with an upper-class accent

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Full of plums or excellences; hence, good; desirable.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. very desirable

adj. (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich

Word Usage

"The only explanation he could think of was that messages had been left on his phone by an executive's assistant, who had a voice which could be described as "plummy"."

Equivalent

desirable affected unnatural

Variant

plummiest plummier

Form

plummily plumminess

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

desirable profitable advantageous

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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