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ruttiest

ruttiest is the superlative form of rutty.

Meaning of rutty

Adjective (1)

rutty (comparative ruttier, superlative ruttiest)

  1. Imprinted with ruts.
    • a rutty country road
    Synonyms:
    rutted
  2. (US, dated) In a rut (dull routine).
    • Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.1893, Frederick S. Parkhurst, Work and Workers: Practical Suggestions for the Junior Epworth League, New York: Hunt & Eaton, page 63
  3. Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
    • I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell1970, Ramon Guthrie, “Loin de Moi …”, in Maximum Security Ward, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 45
    Synonyms:
    ruttish, lustful

Adjective (2)

rutty (comparative ruttier, superlative ruttiest)

  1. (obsolete) Full of roots.
    • […] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes,
      Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes,
      Was paynted all with variable flowers,1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion, London: William Ponsonby
    Synonyms:
    rooty

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Questions about ruttiest

What is ruttiest the superlative form of?
Ruttiest is the superlative form of rutty.

Words near ruttiest in the dictionary

  1. rutterkin
  2. rutterkins
  3. rutters
  4. ruttier
  5. ruttiers
  6. ruttiest
  7. ruttily
  8. ruttiness
  9. rutting
  10. rutting season
  11. rutting seasons

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