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swottier

swottier is the comparative form of swotty.

Meaning of swotty

Adjective

swotty (comparative swottier, superlative swottiest)

  1. (UK, slang) Studious; being a swot; nerdy.
    • According to [Tony] Buzan, orthodox forms of note-taking don't stick in the head because they employ only the left brain, the swotty side, leaving our right brain, like many creative types, kicking its heels on the sofa, watching trash TV and waiting for a job offer that never comes.2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about swottier

What is swottier the comparative form of?
Swottier is the comparative form of swotty.

Words near swottier in the dictionary

  1. swots up on
  2. swotted
  3. swotted up on
  4. swotter
  5. swotters
  6. swottier
  7. swottiest
  8. swottily
  9. swottiness
  10. swotting
  11. swotting up on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swottier (page history and authors); swotty (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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