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mirier

mirier is the comparative form of miry.

Meaning of miry

Adjective

miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
    • Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about mirier

What is mirier the comparative form of?
Mirier is the comparative form of miry.

Words near mirier in the dictionary

  1. Miriam
  2. mirid
  3. mirid bug
  4. mirid bugs
  5. mirids
  6. mirier
  7. miriest
  8. mirific
  9. mirifical
  10. mirifically
  11. mirificent

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