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driftier

driftier is the comparative form of drifty.

Meaning of drifty

Adjective

drifty (comparative driftier, superlative driftiest)

  1. Tending or seeming to drift.
    • The first time I heard them struggling with their electric instruments and singing in cracked falsettos, I imagined a line of fishing boats puttering off into the fogbound sea of a cold New England morn. "Ah, Shrimp Boat," I exclaimed, "what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!"1988 November 18, Renaldo Migaldi, “Shrimp Boat”, in Chicago Reader
  2. (dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.

Questions about driftier

What is driftier the comparative form of?
Driftier is the comparative form of drifty.

Words near driftier in the dictionary

  1. drifteth
  2. driftfish
  3. driftfishes
  4. driftful
  5. driftfulness
  6. driftier
  7. driftiest
  8. driftily
  9. driftin'
  10. driftiness
  11. drifting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driftier (page history and authors); drifty (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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