blastier
blastier is the comparative form of blasty.
Meaning of blasty
Adjective
blasty (comparative blastier, superlative blastiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.
- How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ?1933, The Unenchanted Circle, page 224
- Extremely loud.
- The recording is for the most part clean and bright, with only an occasional blasty forte marring the otherwise excellent sound.1943, Steinway Review of Permanent Music - Volumes 3-10
- Affected by blasts; gusty.
- Thus passed the first afternoon of my retour by the Mountaineer, and the next day being blasty and bleak, nobody was in a humour either to tell or to hear stories;1821 December, “The Steam-Boatauthor=”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 10, number 54, page 661
- Given to outbursts; blustery.
- I told him it was not, and then he said, "Pooh, pooh, Carey; you know what a windy, blasty fellow Chisholm is , and it is not worth while to take any more notice of it, or say anything about it. "1884, Marcus Joseph Wright, Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount, page 71
- Causing or displaying blast (blight) or injury
- The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir
Questions about blastier
- What is blastier the comparative form of?
- Blastier is the comparative form of blasty.
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