graveyardy
graveyardy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a graveyard.
Adjective
graveyardy (comparative more graveyardy, superlative most graveyardy)
- Resembling or characteristic of a graveyard.
- You can’t think how horrid and—and sort of fungusy she makes things. The whole hall smells of her dreadful crape. And she’s worse than papa ’bout Sundays, and has such a graveyardy way of talking.1892, Amélie Rives, chapter XIX, in Barbara Dering, volume I, London: Chatto & Windus, […], page 175
- But my concert wasn’t much of a success. When you do a thing for the last time, and know it’s to be the last time, it gives you a graveyardy sort of feeling, no matter how you may struggle against it. And the blither the tune the heavier it seemed to make my heart.1920, Arthur Stringer, “Thursday the Second”, in The Prairie Mother, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, page 62
Examples of graveyardy in a sentence
- Here we have had to overcome the prejudice in the minds of some that evergreens have a “graveyardy” effect.1924, “Evergreens”, in Price List: Fall, 1924; Spring, 1925, Fort Worth, Tex.: Baker Bros. Nursery, →OCLC, page five:
- It smelt to her “graveyardy.” She was sure that the windows were never opened.1924, Hugh Walpole, “Agatha Secretly . . .”, in The Old Ladies, London: Macmillan and Co., […], page 141:
- Patrick went on, in a graveyardy tone, “You sat here in the dark.1944, Frances Crane, chapter 29, in The Pink Umbrella: A Mystery Novel, London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd. […], published 1946, pages...
- It is a dank, deep, miserable graveyardy sort of a chill, the prison cold, and does not shift easily.2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 329:
Forms of graveyardy
| comparative | more graveyardy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most graveyardy |
Origin of graveyardy
From graveyard + -y.
Questions about graveyardy
- What does graveyardy mean?
- Graveyardy means resembling or characteristic of a graveyard.
- How do you use graveyardy in a sentence?
- Here we have had to overcome the prejudice in the minds of some that evergreens have a “graveyardy” effect.
- What part of speech is graveyardy?
- Graveyardy is an adjective.
Words near graveyardy in the dictionary
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