groundy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like or characteristic of grounds; coarse
Example Sentences
- "They never dreamed of that, yet it is as certainly true as truth itself! They cannot see these splendid things, because their visual range is groundy, while these lofty truths are at their base anchored in the substance of the human soul, and held there by a cable, Love, whose other end girdles the Infinite God!"
- "Nasturtiums beat out loudest reds in groundier earthings, a clash of hot orange contestants."
- "On one end of the garden the kids have built a farm with hills and ditches and stone fences and grass clippings for hay. They sure play in that a lot. The only trouble is they get so groundy. The kids brought home lots of wild grapes and elderberries this year. I think that one week all I did besides the usual stuff was make jelly. Those fruits are slow to work with."
- "Procure a green-backed, fresh-water pike of about five pounds (the darker ones are generally soft and have a groundy taste) ; […])"
- "So having given us some of the groundiest coffee it has ever been my fortune to encounter, and some cigarettes like his own, which were capital smoking, he sat and looked at us till we did not think that we were getting any ' forarder.'"
- "There wasn't much difference, except that the coffee wasn't so groundy."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
groundier (comparative)
more groundy (comparative)
groundiest (superlative)
most groundy (superlative)