Starchy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Containing starch.
  • adj. Stiffened with starch.
  • adj. Of or resembling starch.
  • adj. Stiff; formal: "this starchy, old-fashioned hotel room” ( Anne Tyler).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to starch.
  • adj. Containing starch.
  • adj. Pertaining to the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
  • adj. Pertaining to a similarly starched personality; not cruel, but filled with rectitudinity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to starch.
  • adj. Containing or consisting of starch; -- used especially of foods.
  • adj. Resembling starch; stiff.
  • adj. Stiffened by use of starch; starched{1}; -- of clothing.
  • adj. Formal in manner; precise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Stiff; precise; formal in manner.
  • Consisting of starch; resembling starch.
  • Of a powdery texture due to the predominance of starch: said chiefly of the more amylaceous (soft)_wheats: opposed to horny.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. consisting of or containing starch
  • adj. rigidly formal
  • Equivalent
    farinaceous    amylaceous    starchlike    amyloidal    amyloid    formal   
    Cross Reference
    stiff   
    Variant
    starchiest    starchier   
    Form
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    Words with the same meaning
    stiff    starched{1}    farinaceous   
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Archie   
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