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dicty

dicty adjective: stylish and respectable; high-class.

Adjective

dicty (comparative dictier, superlative dictiest)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) stylish and respectable; high-class
  2. (African-American Vernacular) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
  3. (African-American Vernacular) snobbish and uptight
    • We had already decided that he'd have to move in with Isabel and her folks. I knew this wasn't the ideal arrangement because Isabel's folks are inclined to be dicty and they hadn't especially wanted Isabel to marry me. But I didn't know what else to do.1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965

Noun

dicty (plural dicties)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) An upper-class black.

Proper noun capitalized: Dicty

Dicty

  1. (diminutive) diminutive of Dictyostelium discoideum (a soil social amoeba)
    Synonyms:
    Dictyostelium discoideum, D. discoideum, discoideum

Synonyms of dicty

3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
  • Dictyostelium discoideum
  • D. discoideum
  • discoideum

Forms of dicty

Adjective
comparativedictier
superlativedictiest
alternative formdickty
Noun
pluraldicties

Questions about dicty

What does dicty mean?
Dicty means stylish and respectable; high-class.
What part of speech is dicty?
Dicty can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near dicty in the dictionary

  1. dictographs
  2. dicts
  3. dicts.
  4. dictum
  5. dictums
  6. dicty
  7. dictyate
  8. dictyates
  9. dictynid
  10. dictynids
  11. dictynoid

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