blasty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.
Example Sentences
- "How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ?"
- "Personally, I wouldn't have the muzzle-brake on the end of a rifle barrel—particularly not a rifle with such a blasty calibre as the .270."
- "And the kid picked out this pomegranate-colored rug with all these colorful swooshes and he called it the "blasty rug," and the mom kept pulling him over to this plain brown rug and saying, "This will match your bedspread, Henry.""
- ""Why don't I get a cool blasty thing?” Alex demanded."
- "The recording is for the most part clean and bright, with only an occasional blasty forte marring the otherwise excellent sound."
- "Roland's arrangement of the Ellington-Strayhorn piece captures the feeling of the original but invests it with the Kenton sound by employing the band's predictable blasty trombones and its typical screaming trumpets ."
Etymology
From blast + -y.