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pastelly

pastelly adjective: resembling or characteristic of art done in pastels.

Adjective

pastelly (comparative more pastelly, superlative most pastelly)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of art done in pastels.
    • The room was decorated in pastelly colours.

Forms of pastelly

comparativemore pastelly
superlativemost pastelly

Origin of pastelly

From pastel + -y.

Questions about pastelly

What does pastelly mean?
Pastelly means resembling or characteristic of art done in pastels.
What part of speech is pastelly?
Pastelly is an adjective.

Words near pastelly in the dictionary

  1. pastelle
  2. pastelles
  3. pastellic
  4. pastellist
  5. pastellists
  6. pastelly
  7. pastels
  8. pastepot
  9. pastepots
  10. paster
  11. Pasterka

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