adj
Meaning 1
Covered with grass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a grassy knoll
- We threw his grassy shorts straight into the washing machine.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
grassy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɡɹæsi/
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rhymes with -æsi
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑːsi/
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rhymes with -ɑːsi
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CMU ARPABET: G R AE1 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Resembling grass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A locality on King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of grassie (“grass carp; white amur”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Qualifier: recreational fishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
abounding in grass
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: grassless
History
Etymology
From Middle English grasy, from Old English *græsiġ, *gærsiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grasagrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grasagrōniz, equivalent to grass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian gäärsich (“grassy”), Dutch grazig (“grassy”), German grasig (“grassy”), Icelandic grösugur (“grassy”).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aromanian: irbos — covered with grass
- Bulgarian: тревист (trevist) — covered with grass
- Bulgarian: покрит с трева (pokrit s treva) — covered with grass
- Catalan: herbat — covered with grass
- Catalan: herbós — covered with grass
- Finnish: ruohoinen — covered with grass
- French: herbeux — covered with grass
- Friulian: jerbôs — covered with grass
- German: grasbewachsen — covered with grass
- Icelandic: grösugur — covered with grass
- Ilocano: naruot — covered with grass
- Indonesian: berumput — covered with grass
- Irish: féarúil — covered with grass
- Italian: erboso — covered with grass
- Kapampangan: marikut — covered with grass
- Latin: grāmineus — covered with grass
- Latin: herbosus — covered with grass
- Malay: berumput — covered with grass
- Plautdietsch: graussich — covered with grass
- Portuguese: gramado — covered with grass
- Romanian: ierbos — covered with grass
- Sicilian: irbusu — covered with grass
- Spanish: herboso — covered with grass
- Tagalog: madamo — covered with grass
- Tagalog: matalahib — covered with grass
- Ukrainian: трав'янистий (travʺjanystyj) — covered with grass
- Catalan: herbaci — resembling grass
- Finnish: ruohomainen — resembling grass
- German: grasig — resembling grass
- Italian: erbale — resembling grass
- Plautdietsch: graussich — resembling grass
Real reading context