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mathy

mathy adjective: synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).

Adjective

mathy (comparative more mathy or mathier, superlative most mathy or mathiest)

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).
    • I showed a draft of this book to one of my nieces and she declared it “too mathy.”2009, Bob Dancer, Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner, page 7
    • She first combined her math-y and woolly mind-sets as a Ph.D. student, after admiring a friend’s crocheted interpretation of the hyperbolic plane (curly kale is a vegetable example) and wondering how to do it differently.2019 May 17, Siobhan Roberts, “‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    mathsy

Synonyms of mathy

Forms of mathy

comparativemore mathy
comparativemathier
superlativemost mathy
superlativemathiest
alternative formmath-y

Origin of mathy

From math + -y.

Questions about mathy

What does mathy mean?
Mathy means synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).
What part of speech is mathy?
Mathy is an adjective.

Words near mathy in the dictionary

  1. mathwashes
  2. mathwashing
  3. Mathwin
  4. Mathwins
  5. mathwise
  6. mathy
  7. Mathys
  8. Mathyses
  9. mati
  10. Matic
  11. Matica-a

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