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gaspier

gaspier is the comparative form of gaspy.

Meaning of gaspy

Adjective

gaspy (comparative gaspier, superlative gaspiest)

  1. Resembling or characterised by gasps.
    • Then his eyes began to spread and his breath to come out kinder gaspy like, and he says: "Ger-reat Scott, it's the LONGITUDE!"1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

Questions about gaspier

What is gaspier the comparative form of?
Gaspier is the comparative form of gaspy.

Words near gaspier in the dictionary

  1. gaspers
  2. Gaspesia
  3. Gaspesian
  4. Gaspesians
  5. gaspeth
  6. gaspier
  7. gaspiest
  8. gaspiness
  9. gasping
  10. gasping disease
  11. gaspingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaspier (page history and authors); gaspy (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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