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balloonier

balloonier is the comparative form of balloony.

Meaning of balloony

Adjective

balloony (comparative balloonier, superlative ballooniest)

  1. Tending to balloon
    • His low-cut shirt-collar and narrow silken neck-tie were in the style called "English," as quite decidedly, also, were his cross-barred trousers of balloony build; nor, although thus flinging himself for diversion into the vortex of the lower crowd, had he foregone the luxury of tan-colored kid...1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861

Questions about balloonier

What is balloonier the comparative form of?
Balloonier is the comparative form of balloony.

Words near balloonier in the dictionary

  1. balloonfishes
  2. balloonful
  3. balloonfuls
  4. balloonhead
  5. balloonheads
  6. balloonier
  7. ballooniest
  8. ballooning
  9. ballooningly
  10. balloonings
  11. balloonish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: balloonier (page history and authors); balloony (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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