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starchy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'starchy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Starchy [ a.]
- Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

Meaning of 'starchy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . starchy [ a]
Meaning (1):
- consisting of or containing starch
Example in sentence:
  • starchy foods
2 . starchy [ s]
Meaning (2):
- rigidly formal
Example in sentence:
  • a starchy manner;
  • his prose has a buckram quality;
  • the letter was stiff and formal