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sobbier

sobbier is the comparative form of sobby.

Meaning of sobby

Adjective (1)

sobby (comparative sobbier, superlative sobbiest)

  1. Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps).
    • It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake.1903, George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a sob.
    • a sobby sound

Adjective (2)

sobby (comparative sobbier, superlative sobbiest)

  1. (archaic) That has been sobbed (soaked); saturated with moisture.
    • Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one.1882, Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Questions about sobbier

What is sobbier the comparative form of?
Sobbier is the comparative form of sobby.

Words near sobbier in the dictionary

  1. sobbers
  2. sobbery
  3. sobbest
  4. sobbeth
  5. sobbie
  6. sobbier
  7. sobbies
  8. sobbiest
  9. sobbin'
  10. sobbing
  11. sobbingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sobbier (page history and authors); sobby (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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