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corniest

corniest is the superlative form of corny.

Meaning of corny

Adjective

corny (comparative cornier, superlative corniest)

  1. Boring and unoriginal.
    • The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
  2. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
    • The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
  3. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Uncool, stupid, lame.
    • Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 221
  4. (rare) Containing corn.
    • Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.2012, Marlene Koch, Eat More of What You Love, Running Press, →ISBN
  5. (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
    • The corny ear.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
  6. (UK, obsolete, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
    • Yen day when aw was corney.1850, Joseph Philip Robson, France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne

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Questions about corniest

What is corniest the superlative form of?
Corniest is the superlative form of corny.

Words near corniest in the dictionary

  1. cornicylls
  2. Corniel
  3. Corniels
  4. cornier
  5. Corniers
  6. corniest
  7. cornifelin
  8. corniferous
  9. cornific
  10. cornification
  11. cornifications

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corniest (page history and authors); corny (page history and authors). 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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