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deedier

deedier is the comparative form of deedy.

Meaning of deedy

Adjective

deedy (comparative deedier, superlative deediest)

  1. Industrious; active.
    • The novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, asked by the London Times to give a brief account of her life, replied: "There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy." Deedy! This is one of those words that, once you have seen it, makes you wonder why it isn't in everyday use. The job interviewer, going...2004 December 31, John Derbyshire, “Yes, Un-Deedy”, in National Review
  2. Earnest; serious.
  3. (dialectal) Genuine, authentic; actual, real.

Questions about deedier

What is deedier the comparative form of?
Deedier is the comparative form of deedy.

Words near deedier in the dictionary

  1. deedful
  2. deedfully
  3. deedholder
  4. deedholders
  5. deedholding
  6. deedier
  7. deediest
  8. deedily
  9. deediness
  10. deeding
  11. deedlee ball

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deedier (page history and authors); deedy (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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