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wheelier

wheelier is the comparative form of wheely.

wheelier is the comparative form of wheelie.

Meaning of wheely

Adjective

wheely (comparative wheelier or more wheely, superlative wheeliest or most wheely)

  1. (informal) Circular; suitable to rotation.
  2. (informal) Having wheels; mounted on wheels; wheeled.
    • wheely bag wheely basket wheely bin wheely cart wheely chair
  3. (informal) Having characteristics of a wheel.

Meaning of wheelie

Noun

wheelie (plural wheelies)

  1. (informal) An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels.
    • Jim fell off his bike when he was trying to do a wheelie.
    Synonyms:
    mono, wheelstand
  2. (Australia, informal) A wheelchair user.
    • It is also a nightmare for the wheelies, or wheelchair users. Not only is it hard enough to find a bloody wheelchair in the airport these days, but to push them to this back-of-beyond gate is a job in itself.2005, Imogen Edwards-Jones, “Anonymous” [pseudonym], “6–7 am”, in Air Babylon, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN; republished London: Corgi Books, 2006, →ISBN, page 29

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Questions about wheelier

What is wheelier the comparative form of?
Wheelier is the comparative form of wheely.

Words near wheelier in the dictionary

  1. wheelie bins
  2. wheelie-bin
  3. wheelie-bins
  4. wheelied
  5. wheelieing
  6. wheelier
  7. wheelies
  8. wheeliest
  9. wheeling
  10. wheeling about
  11. wheeling and dealing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelier (page history and authors); wheely (page history and authors); wheelie (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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