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battiest

battiest is the superlative form of batty.

Meaning of batty

Adjective

batty (comparative battier, superlative battiest)

  1. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
    • He had left too fast. He must have seen the girl. He couldn't be sure she was too batty to see him.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, →ISBN, page 42
  2. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
    • And from each other look thou lead them thus
      Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
      With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...

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Questions about battiest

What is battiest the superlative form of?
Battiest is the superlative form of batty.

Words near battiest in the dictionary

  1. Batteys
  2. Batticaloa
  3. batticon
  4. battier
  5. batties
  6. battiest
  7. battik
  8. battiked
  9. battiking
  10. battiks
  11. battil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: battiest (page history and authors); batty (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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