meaty
/ˈmiːti/
meaty adjective: of, relating to, or containing meat.
Adjective
meaty (comparative meatier, superlative meatiest)
- Of, relating to, or containing meat.
- In the early years of this century most Americans did not question the meaty, starchy, saladless national diet.1993, Helen Nearing, Loving and Leaving the Good Life, page 26
- Resembling meat in flavour, smell, etc.
- This tastes rather meaty. Are you sure it's vegetarian?
- "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121
- Synonyms:
- fleshy
- Of a person or a body part, large and solid.
- The whole, long, thick, meaty shaft of it quivered as if eager to dispel my mouth. Odor assailed me, too – my brother, like so many soldiers, not being overly fastidious in matters of personal hygiene. "All right, my little whoreling," he commanded, [...]2002, Jean Marie Stine, Trans-Sexual - Page 68
- There’s nothing worse than having cashed out the college fund so that Mom and Dad and Buddy and Sis can afford airfare to Wally World, only to find out that they are additionally facing bag fees and snack fees, and soon enough, there will likely be a fee to have the 350-pound man sausaged next to...2017 December 25, “The Scrapbook: A Surcharge on the Charge, Sir”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 23, number 16, page 2, column 1
- Substantial.
- I got a nice, meaty bonus.
- He scored a meaty role in the film, with plenty of action and dialogue.
- Synonyms:
- substantial
meaty meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
meaty in Tamil
- சதைப்பற்றுள்ள
meaty in Malayalam
- muscular, beefy, brawny
- പുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, മാംസപുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, മാംസള, ഉറച്ചമാംസപേശിയുള്ള, ശരീരപുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, തടിമിടുക്കുള്ള
- thought-provoking, interesting, three-dimensional
- കഴമ്പുള്ള, രസകരമായ, താൽപര്യമുണർത്തുന്ന, കൗതൂകമുള്ള, ആലോചക, ചിന്തോദ്ദ്വീപകമായ
meaty in Kannada
- ಮಾಂಸಲ, ಮಾಂಸ ತುಂಬಿದ
meaty in Arabic
- of, relating to, or containing meat
- لَحْمِيّ laḥmiyy
Examples of meaty in a sentence
- The slightly sulfurous, meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom's hollow stalk.2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 388:
- When he tried to extract the liver, which should have been firm and meaty, it deliquesced into a bloody sludge, sliding goopily through his fingers.2020 December, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic Magazine:
- He also had a bad one when his loose touch allowed Zivkovic to supply Mitrovic for a meaty drive that flew wide.2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of meaty
Forms of meaty
| comparative | meatier |
|---|---|
| superlative | meatiest |
Origin of meaty
From meat + -y.
Words formed from meaty
Words that rhyme with meaty
Questions about meaty
- What does meaty mean?
- Meaty means of, relating to, or containing meat.
- What is meaty in Tamil?
- Meaty in Tamil is சதைப்பற்றுள்ள. See Meaty meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use meaty in a sentence?
- The slightly sulfurous, meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom's hollow stalk.
- What part of speech is meaty?
- Meaty is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce meaty?
- Meaty is pronounced /ˈmiːti/.
Words near meaty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: meaty (page history and authors); meaty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); meaty (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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