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wallpapery

wallpapery adjective: resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.

Adjective

wallpapery (comparative more wallpapery, superlative most wallpapery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
    • Most dictionaries are made of paper, glue and ink, from the cheap and ugly paperbacks favoured by schoolchildren, to sumptuous editions, exuding opulence, like that of the Spanish Royal Academy, with its stiff, cream, wallpapery pages […]2005, Christopher J. Hall, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, page 95

Forms of wallpapery

comparativemore wallpapery
superlativemost wallpapery

Origin of wallpapery

From wallpaper + -y.

Questions about wallpapery

What does wallpapery mean?
Wallpapery means resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
What part of speech is wallpapery?
Wallpapery is an adjective.

Words near wallpapery in the dictionary

  1. wallpaperers
  2. Wallpapergate
  3. wallpapering
  4. wallpaperlike
  5. wallpapers
  6. wallpapery
  7. wallpepper
  8. wallpeppers
  9. wallpiece
  10. wallpieces
  11. wallplant

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