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mothier

mothier is the comparative form of mothy.

Meaning of mothy

Adjective

mothy (comparative mothier, superlative mothiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a moth.
    • He felt a flutter of panic, a commotion of mothy wings at his throat.2012, Griffin Hansbury, The Nostalgist
  2. infested with moths
  3. moth-eaten

Questions about mothier

What is mothier the comparative form of?
Mothier is the comparative form of mothy.

Words near mothier in the dictionary

  1. motherwort
  2. motherworts
  3. mothery
  4. mothicide
  5. mothicides
  6. mothier
  7. mothiest
  8. mothing
  9. mothless
  10. mothlike
  11. Mothman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mothier (page history and authors); mothy (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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