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bouncy

/ˈbaʊnsi/US/ˈbaʊnsi/

bouncy adjective: easily bounced.

Adjective

bouncy (comparative bouncier, superlative bounciest)

  1. Easily bounced.
    • You can’t play tennis without a bouncy ball.
  2. Lively, exuberant, energetic.
    • bouncy music
    • She’s a very bouncy character.

Noun

bouncy (plural bouncies)

  1. (childish, informal) An excessively bouncing pitch in kickball.
    • Hey! We said no bouncies!

bouncy meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

bouncy in Tamil

துள்ளுகிற

bouncy in Bengali

বাউন্সি

bouncy in Telugu

బౌన్సి

bouncy in Malayalam

springy, resilient, flexible
ഊക്കോടെ തിരികെ പൊന്തിവരുന്ന, പൊന്തുന്ന, ആവല്ഗിത, പതുക്കെ ഇളകുന്ന, കുതിക്കുന്ന, ഉത്പതിക്കുന്ന
jolting, bumpy, jerky
ഇളകിത്തുള്ളുന്ന, കുണ്ടും കുഴിയുമുള്ള, കുലുങ്ങിത്തെറിക്കുന്ന, തെന്നിത്തെന്നിനീങ്ങുന്ന, കുലുക്കമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, താഡനത്താലെന്ന പോലെ ഞെട്ടൽ ഏല്പിക്കുന്ന
energetic, lively, perky
ആത്മവിശ്വാസവും പ്രസന്നതയുമുള്ള, അക്ഷീണ, ഉത്സുക, ഉത്സാഹക, ജീവത്തായ, ഊർജ്ജസ്വല
More languagesFewer languages
bouncy in Kannada
ಗೆಲುವಿನ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹದ, ಲವಲವಿಕೆಯ, ಪುಟ ನೆಗೆಸುವ
bouncy in Gujarati
બાઉન્સી
bouncy in Odia
ବାଉନ୍ସି
bouncy in Nepali
बाउन्सी

Examples of bouncy in a sentence

  • I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
  • While most men may love big bouncy breasts, the hyper fetish goes beyond what is natural.
  • Rather than a pert, bouncy dessert, the yōkan has spread across the plate like Jabba the Hutt.

All 18 example sentences with bouncy

Forms of bouncy

Adjective
comparativebouncier
superlativebounciest
Noun
pluralbouncies

Origin of bouncy

From bounce + -y.

Words formed from bouncy

Phrases with bouncy

Words that rhyme with bouncy

Questions about bouncy

What does bouncy mean?
Bouncy means easily bounced.
What is bouncy in Tamil?
Bouncy in Tamil is துள்ளுகிற. See Bouncy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bouncy?
Bouncy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce bouncy?
Bouncy is pronounced /ˈbaʊnsi/ (UK).

Words near bouncy in the dictionary

  1. bouncing on it
  2. bouncing rubble
  3. bouncing the rubble
  4. bouncingly
  5. bouncings
  6. bouncy
  7. bouncy ball
  8. bouncy balls
  9. bouncy castle
  10. bouncy castles
  11. bouncy house

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bouncy (page history and authors); bouncy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bouncy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bouncy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bouncy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bouncy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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