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EARTHY (earthier, earthiest)
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, earthiest Dictionary entry overview: What does earthy mean?
• EARTHY (adjective)
The adjective EARTHY has 5 senses:
1. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
2. not far removed from or suggestive of nature
3. hearty and lusty
4. of or consisting of or resembling earth
5. sensible and practical
Familiarity information: EARTHY used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: earthiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Synonyms:
Context example:
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Similar:
indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not far removed from or suggestive of nature
Context example:
earthy smells of new-mown grass
Similar:
natural (in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Hearty and lusty
Context example:
an earthy enjoyment of life
Similar:
uninhibited (not inhibited or restrained)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or consisting of or resembling earth
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean
Pertainym:
earth (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface)
Derivation:
earth (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Sensible and practical
Synonyms:
down-to-earth; earthy
Context example:
her earthy common sense
Similar:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
Context examples
He could not have lain there long, for the earthy smell would have passed away in a few hours.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You are an earth sign, and with Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn in earthy Capricorn, Uranus and Venus in earth-sign Taurus, the full moon in earth-sign Virgo, and Neptune and the Sun in wildly compatible water-sign Pisces, to say you will be in your element this month is an understatement.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The earthy smell, the sunless air, the sensation of the world being shut out, the resounding of the organ through the black and white arched galleries and aisles, are wings that take me back, and hold me hovering above those days, in a half-sleeping and half-waking dream.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Not only do you have four planets in earthy Capricorn, you have two in another earth sign, Taurus—Venus and Uranus—and two in water—Neptune in Pisces, and for the first three weeks, the Sun will be in Pisces, too.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Everything is grey—except the green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; grey clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the grey sea, into which the sand-points stretch like grey fingers.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The full moon of March 9 might bring a fun little weekend trip with your partner to a mountainous area with a thick, verdant forest. (A full moon in earthy Virgo would bring you to a fertile area, but not likely one with water or snow.)
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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