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What is "starchy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does starchy mean in English? Meaning of starchy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "starchy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "starchy": consisting of or containing starch

Adjective

  • Meaning: consisting of or containing starch
  • Example: starchy foods
  • Synonyms: starchy
  • Antonyms: starchless
  • Similar: amylaceous amyloid amyloidal farinaceous starchlike

    • Meaning of "starchy": rigidly formal

    Adjective

  • Meaning: rigidly formal
  • Example: a starchy manner the letter was stiff and formal his prose has a buckram quality
  • Synonyms: buckram starchy stiff
  • Similar: formal
  • Adjective: Of or pertaining to starch.Containing starch.Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.

    • Synonyms:

    stuffy, ceremonious, conventional, inflexible, mannered, prim, reserved, rigid, stilted, strait-laced, strict, starched,

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