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plasticky

plasticky adjective: resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and lightweight.

Adjective

plasticky (comparative more plasticky, superlative most plasticky)

  1. Resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and lightweight.
    • She had awoken two hours later in the cabbagey-plasticky fug of her tent feeling deadly certain that she had failed somehow, that he had been expecting something to happen between them, and now it wouldn't happen—or couldn't happen—because she was no longer on her own.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 201

Forms of plasticky

comparativemore plasticky
superlativemost plasticky

Origin of plasticky

From plastic + -y.

Questions about plasticky

What does plasticky mean?
Plasticky means resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and lightweight.
What part of speech is plasticky?
Plasticky is an adjective.

Words near plasticky in the dictionary

  1. plasticizes
  2. plasticizing
  3. plastick
  4. plasticked
  5. plasticks
  6. plasticky
  7. plasticless
  8. plasticly
  9. plasticness
  10. plasticolous
  11. plasticosis

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