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billowier

billowier is the comparative form of billowy.

Meaning of billowy

Adjective

billowy (comparative billowier, superlative billowiest)

  1. Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
    • He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200

Questions about billowier

What is billowier the comparative form of?
Billowier is the comparative form of billowy.

Words near billowier in the dictionary

  1. billow
  2. billow maiden
  3. billow maidens
  4. billowed
  5. billoweth
  6. billowier
  7. billowiest
  8. billowiness
  9. billowing
  10. billowingly
  11. billowings

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