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miriest

miriest is the superlative 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 miriest

What is miriest the superlative form of?
Miriest is the superlative form of miry.

Words near miriest in the dictionary

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

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