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feastly

feastly adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.

Adjective

feastly (comparative more feastly, superlative most feastly)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
    • So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for […]1994, University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international
    • Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.2003, Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history

Forms of feastly

comparativemore feastly
superlativemost feastly

Origin of feastly

From Middle English festlich, equivalent to feast + -ly. Compare Dutch feestelijk (“festive”), German festlich (“festive, solemn”), Danish and Swedish festlig (“festive, solemn”).

Questions about feastly

What does feastly mean?
Feastly means of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
What part of speech is feastly?
Feastly is an adjective.

Words near feastly in the dictionary

  1. feastings
  2. feastiuall
  3. feastiualls
  4. feastless
  5. feastlike
  6. feastly
  7. feasts
  8. feasts for the eyes
  9. Feasts of Asses
  10. Feasts of Fools
  11. feasts one's eyes

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