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fingery

fingery adjective: resembling fingers in shape.

Adjective

fingery (comparative more fingery, superlative most fingery)

  1. Resembling fingers in shape.
    • They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges.2007 July 15, Christopher Gray, “What the Future Looked Like Yesterday”, in New York Times
  2. Requiring the use of fingers to climb.

Synonyms of fingery

Forms of fingery

comparativemore fingery
superlativemost fingery

Origin of fingery

From finger + -y.

Questions about fingery

What does fingery mean?
Fingery means resembling fingers in shape.
What part of speech is fingery?
Fingery is an adjective.

Words near fingery in the dictionary

  1. fingerwidth
  2. fingerwidths
  3. fingerwise
  4. fingerwork
  5. fingerwort
  6. fingery
  7. Finghall
  8. fingie
  9. fingies
  10. Finglas
  11. Finglases

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