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yeasty

/ˈjiːsti/

yeasty adjective: having or resembling yeast.

Adjective

yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)

  1. Having or resembling yeast.
  2. Foamy and frothy.
    • The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...].1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto III, stanza 58
  3. Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  4. Trivial.
    • Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
      know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
      time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
      yeasty collection, which carries them through and
      through the most profane and winnowed opinionsc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

yeasty meaning in Urdu

yeasty in Urdu

بےہودہ, بےمغز, چھچھورا, فضول گو, ہلکا, خمیر دار

Forms of yeasty

comparativeyeastier
superlativeyeastiest

Origin of yeasty

From yeast + -y.

Words formed from yeasty

Phrases with yeasty

Words that rhyme with yeasty

Questions about yeasty

What does yeasty mean?
Yeasty means having or resembling yeast.
What is yeasty in Urdu?
Yeasty in Urdu is بےہودہ, بےمغز, چھچھورا. See Yeasty meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is yeasty?
Yeasty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce yeasty?
Yeasty is pronounced /ˈjiːsti/.

Words near yeasty in the dictionary

  1. yeastless
  2. yeastlike
  3. yeastolate
  4. yeastolates
  5. yeasts
  6. yeasty
  7. yeasty beasties
  8. yeasty beasty
  9. yeat
  10. Yeater
  11. Yeaters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yeasty (page history and authors); yeasty (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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