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starchy

/ˈstɑɹt͡ʃi/

starchy adjective: of or pertaining to starch.

Adjective

starchy (comparative starchier or more starchy, superlative starchiest or most starchy)

  1. Of or pertaining to starch.
  2. Containing starch.
  3. Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
    • Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
  4. Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.

starchy meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Malay

starchy in Tamil

தரசம்கொண்ட

starchy in Bengali

শ্বেতসারযুক্ত, আনুষ্ঠানিক

starchy in Malayalam

staid, quiet, sedate
ഗൗരവസ്വഭാവമുള്ള, ധീരനായ, സ്ഥിരചിത്തനായ, ഗംഭീരഭാവമുള്ള, പതറാത്ത, നിരുദ്വേഗ

starchy in Malay

containing starch
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Examples of starchy in a sentence

  • Should I prebolus or not before starchy dinners?
  • The aroma and flavor resembled that of cornmeal and tasted starchy and "cobby."
  • Starchy, ordinary pastry crust gets replaced by a flavor-packed, lower-carb (gluten-free!) veggie version in this eggsquisite quiche recipe.

All 11 example sentences with starchy

Forms of starchy

comparativestarchier
comparativemore starchy
superlativestarchiest
superlativemost starchy

Origin of starchy

From starch + -y.

Words formed from starchy

Questions about starchy

What does starchy mean?
Starchy means of or pertaining to starch.
What is starchy in Tamil?
Starchy in Tamil is தரசம்கொண்ட. See Starchy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is starchy?
Starchy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce starchy?
Starchy is pronounced /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃi/ (US).

Words near starchy in the dictionary

  1. starchroot
  2. starchroots
  3. starchworks
  4. starchwort
  5. starchworts
  6. starchy
  7. Starck
  8. Starcks
  9. starcraft
  10. StarCrafter
  11. StarCrafters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: starchy (page history and authors); starchy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); starchy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); starchy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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