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wailiest

wailiest is the superlative form of waily.

Meaning of waily

Adjective

waily (comparative wailier, superlative wailiest)

  1. Tending to wail; complaining.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a wail.
    • I distinctly saw merriment (upper school goths and Suzy nodding their heads to waily music) through the window.2013, Joanna Nadin, The Rachel Riley Diaries: My So-Called Life

Questions about wailiest

What is wailiest the superlative form of?
Wailiest is the superlative form of waily.

Words near wailiest in the dictionary

  1. wailest
  2. waileth
  3. wailful
  4. wailfully
  5. wailier
  6. wailiest
  7. wailin'
  8. wailing
  9. wailing on
  10. Wailing Wall
  11. wailingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wailiest (page history and authors); waily (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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