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mossier

mossier is the comparative form of mossy.

Meaning of mossy

Adjective

mossy (comparative mossier, superlative mossiest)

  1. Covered in or overgrown with moss.
    • The moſſy pales that ſkirt the orchard-green, / Here hid by ſhrub-vvood, there by glimpſes ſeen; […]1798, [Samuel Rogers], “An Epistle to a Friend”, in An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems. […], London: […] R. Noble, for T[homas] Cadell, Junior, and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 10, lines...
    Synonyms:
    moss-grown

Questions about mossier

What is mossier the comparative form of?
Mossier is the comparative form of mossy.

Words near mossier in the dictionary

  1. mossful
  2. Mossgiel
  3. mossgrown
  4. Mossi
  5. mossie
  6. mossier
  7. mossies
  8. mossiest
  9. Mossiface
  10. mossily
  11. mossiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mossier (page history and authors); mossy (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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