branchy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to branch frequently.
Example Sentences
- "The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones."
- "1795, William Blake, The Book of Los, Chapter II, lines 92-4, in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2007, p. 288, […] there grew / Branchy forms, organizing the Human / Into finite inflexible organs,"
- "No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields."
- "[T]he trees blew stedfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward— […]"
- "Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English branch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English branchy From branch + -y.
Inflected Forms
branchier (comparative)
more branchy (comparative)
branchiest (superlative)
most branchy (superlative)