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shiplier

shiplier is the comparative form of shiply.

Meaning of shiply

Adjective

shiply (comparative shiplier or more shiply, superlative shipliest or most shiply)

  1. Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.
    • But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.1942, Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water

Questions about shiplier

What is shiplier the comparative form of?
Shiplier is the comparative form of shiply.

Words near shiplier in the dictionary

  1. shiplaps
  2. shipless
  3. shiplet
  4. shiplets
  5. Shipley
  6. shiplier
  7. shipliest
  8. shiplift
  9. shiplifts
  10. shiplike
  11. shipling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shiplier (page history and authors); shiply (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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