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neighborhoody

neighborhoody adjective: having the friendly sense of community expected of a neighborhood.

Adjective

neighborhoody (comparative more neighborhoody, superlative most neighborhoody)

  1. (informal) Having the friendly sense of community expected of a neighborhood.
    • “It was so neighborhoody and lovely, but it was impractical” and felt strangely isolated.2009 February 22, Joyce Cohen, “Finding Value, Despite a Droopy Market”, in New York Times

Forms of neighborhoody

comparativemore neighborhoody
superlativemost neighborhoody

Origin of neighborhoody

From neighborhood + -y.

Questions about neighborhoody

What does neighborhoody mean?
Neighborhoody means having the friendly sense of community expected of a neighborhood.
What part of speech is neighborhoody?
Neighborhoody is an adjective.

Words near neighborhoody in the dictionary

  1. neighborhoodful
  2. neighborhooding
  3. neighborhoodlike
  4. neighborhoods
  5. neighborhoodsful
  6. neighborhoody
  7. neighboring
  8. neighboring rights
  9. neighborite
  10. neighborless
  11. neighborlier

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