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carrotier

carrotier is the comparative form of carroty.

Meaning of carroty

Adjective

carroty (comparative carrotier, superlative carrotiest)

  1. 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
  2. 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.

Words near carrotier in the dictionary

  1. carrotene
  2. carrotenes
  3. carroter
  4. carroters
  5. Carrothers
  6. carrotier
  7. carrotiest
  8. carrotin
  9. carrotiness
  10. carroting
  11. carrotins

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