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leavy

leavy is the alternative form of leafy.

Meaning of leafy

Adjective

leafy (comparative leafier, superlative leafiest)

  1. Covered with leaves.
    • leafy trees
  2. Containing much foliage.
    • a leafy avenue
  3. In the form of leaves (of some material).
  4. Resembling a leaf.
    • Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2025
  5. Wealthy, middle- or upper-class.
    • They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.

Proper noun capitalized: Leavy

Leavy (plural Leavys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of leavy

Adjective
comparativemore leavy
superlativemost leavy
Proper noun
pluralLeavys

Words formed from leavy

Questions about leavy

What does leavy mean?
Leavy means a surname.
What is leavy the alternative form of?
Leavy is the alternative form of leafy.
What part of speech is leavy?
Leavy is a proper noun.

Words near leavy in the dictionary

  1. Leavisian
  2. leavism
  3. Leavitt
  4. Leavitt law
  5. Leavittsburg
  6. leavy
  7. leavy greens
  8. leavyng
  9. Leavys
  10. Leawood
  11. Leaworthy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leavy (page history and authors); Leavy (page history and authors); leafy (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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