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baggier

baggier is the comparative form of baggy.

Meaning of baggy

Adjective

baggy (comparative baggier, superlative baggiest)

  1. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
    • When the YSL designer finally got to present Sunday, after the show tent pitched on a race course had been deemed unsafe, he had a surprise in store: the longest, bell-bottom pants since the start of the 1970s — and the baggiest since rapper chic.2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times
  2. Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
    • Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists2011 October 18, Jon Savage, “Stone Roses reunion: three baggy playlists”, in The Guardian
  3. (figuratively) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
    • a baggy book

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Questions about baggier

What is baggier the comparative form of?
Baggier is the comparative form of baggy.

Words near baggier in the dictionary

  1. Baggerlys
  2. baggers
  3. Baggett
  4. Baggetts
  5. baggie
  6. baggier
  7. baggies
  8. baggiest
  9. baggily
  10. bagginess
  11. bagginesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baggier (page history and authors); baggy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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