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shoalier

shoalier is the comparative form of shoaly.

Meaning of shoaly

Adjective

shoaly (comparative shoalier, superlative shoaliest)

  1. Full of shoals, or shallows.
    • The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground.1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

Questions about shoalier

What is shoalier the comparative form of?
Shoalier is the comparative form of shoaly.

Words near shoalier in the dictionary

  1. shoalest
  2. shoalgrass
  3. shoalgrasses
  4. Shoalhaven
  5. Shoalhaven Heads
  6. shoalier
  7. shoaliest
  8. shoaliness
  9. shoaling
  10. shoaling wave
  11. shoaling waves

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