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deediest

deediest is the superlative 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 deediest

What is deediest the superlative form of?
Deediest is the superlative form of deedy.

Words near deediest in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deediest (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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