mathy

/mˈæθi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

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adj

Colloquial

"I showed a draft of this book to one of my nieces and she declared it “too mathy.”"
"She first combined her math-y and woolly mind-sets as a Ph.D. student, after admiring a friend’s crocheted interpretation of the hyperbolic plane (curly kale is a vegetable example) and wondering how to do it differently."

From math + -y.

more mathy (comparative) mathier (comparative) most mathy (superlative) mathiest (superlative) math-y (alternative)

mathsy

kathy cathy homeopathy kathie olathe cathie kathi athey

Questions

How do you pronounce mathy?

The recorded pronunciation is /mˈæθi/.

What does mathy mean?

Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).

Where does mathy come from?

From math + -y.

How to pronounce mathy

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