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gamesy

gamesy adjective: involving or characteristic of games; playful, sporty, etc.

Adjective

gamesy (comparative more gamesy, superlative most gamesy)

  1. Involving or characteristic of games; playful, sporty, etc.
    • The highlight of such occasions was the "cotillion," a gamesy ritual for selecting partners that took its name from a frisky old French folk dance called the cotillon, or "petticoat."1965, William Iversen, O the Times! O the Manners!, page 210
    • Roedean's houses were (and still are) called House 1, House 2, House 3 and House 4, which somehow suit a gamesy school on a cliff above Brighton, whereas the houses at Queen Ethelberga's, Harrogate were Auras and Evacuations.2017, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979

Forms of gamesy

comparativemore gamesy
superlativemost gamesy

Origin of gamesy

From games + -y.

Questions about gamesy

What does gamesy mean?
Gamesy means involving or characteristic of games; playful, sporty, etc.
What part of speech is gamesy?
Gamesy is an adjective.

Words near gamesy in the dictionary

  1. gamest
  2. gamester
  3. gamesters
  4. gamestress
  5. gamestresses
  6. gamesy
  7. Gamet
  8. gametal
  9. gametange
  10. gametanges
  11. gametangia

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