adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to starch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
starchy
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃi/
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CMU ARPABET: S T AA1 R CH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Containing starch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
consisting of or containing starch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- starchy foods
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: starchless
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
rigidly formal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a starchy manner
- the letter was stiff and formal
- his prose has a buckram quality
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stiff, buckram
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English starch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English starchy From starch + -y.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: tärkkelys- — of or pertaining to starch
- Ido: fekulala — of or pertaining to starch
- Slovak: škrobový — of or pertaining to starch
- Chinese Mandarin: 有淀粉的 (yǒu diànfěn de) — containing starch
- Finnish: tärkkelyspitoinen — containing starch
- French: féculent — containing starch
- Greek: αμυλούχος (amyloúchos) — containing starch
- Greek: αμυλώδης (amylódis) — containing starch
- Ido: fekuloza — containing starch
- Malay: berkanji — containing starch
- Russian: крахма́листый (kraxmálistyj) — containing starch
- Spanish: feculento — containing starch
- Spanish: amiláceo — containing starch
- Ukrainian: крохма́листий (kroxmálystyj) — containing starch
- Bulgarian: колосан (kolosan) — hardened with starch
- Finnish: tärkätty — hardened with starch
- Russian: накрахмаленный (nakraxmalennyj) — hardened with starch
- Slovak: škrobený — hardened with starch
- Spanish: almidonado — hardened with starch
- Ukrainian: накрохма́лений (nakroxmálenyj) — hardened with starch
- Bulgarian: скован (skovan) — of personality: starched
- Finnish: jäykkä — of personality: starched
- Finnish: muodollinen — of personality: starched
- Slovak: škrobený — of personality: starched