carrotier
carrotier is the comparative form of carroty.
Meaning of carroty
Adjective
carroty (comparative carrotier, superlative carrotiest)
- Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.
- The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a...1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC...
- Synonyms:
- carrotish
- Containing carrots; made of carrots.
- My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions
Questions about carrotier
- What is carrotier the comparative form of?
- Carrotier is the comparative form of carroty.
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