Word.ws English Dictionary

whorly

whorly adjective: shaped like a whorl.

Adjective

whorly (comparative more whorly, superlative most whorly)

  1. Shaped like a whorl.

Forms of whorly

comparativemore whorly
superlativemost whorly

Origin of whorly

From whorl + -y.

Questions about whorly

What does whorly mean?
Whorly means shaped like a whorl.
What part of speech is whorly?
Whorly is an adjective.

Words near whorly in the dictionary

  1. whorlflower
  2. whorlflowers
  3. whorling
  4. whorls
  5. Whorlton
  6. whorly
  7. whorlywort
  8. Whorouly
  9. Whorouly East
  10. Whorouly South
  11. whorror

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whorly (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “whorly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whorly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.