Word.ws English Dictionary

shushiest

shushiest is the superlative form of shushy.

Meaning of shushy

Adjective

shushy (comparative shushier, superlative shushiest)

  1. Attempting to quieten or soothe.
    • My little sister went to the library with us once, but she said she wouldn't come any more because she didn't like the shushy lady and the glasses man.1980, Dorothy Edwards, My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry, page 27
  2. Quiet or secretive.
    • Then the audience and the actor would listen desperately for the frantic, shushy promptings of the nun in the wings.1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home, page 34
  3. Making a sibilant, whooshing sound, like the sound of the letters 'sh'.
    • I have a hat on too and the heater is blowing on me with a shushy noise .2002, S. Kennedy Tosten, M for Mall, page 110

See all 4 meanings of shushy

Questions about shushiest

What is shushiest the superlative form of?
Shushiest is the superlative form of shushy.

Words near shushiest in the dictionary

  1. shusher
  2. shushers
  3. shushes
  4. Shushi
  5. shushier
  6. shushiest
  7. shushing
  8. shushings
  9. Shushrusha
  10. shushy
  11. shusse hiro

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shushiest (page history and authors); shushy (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shushiest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shushiest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.