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English

Adjective

starchy

Pertaining to the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
Pertaining to a similarly starched personality; not cruel, but filled with rectitudinity

fa:starchy io:starchy fi:starchy ta:starchy vi:starchy

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English starchy \starch"y\ (-[y^]), a.
1. Of or pertaining to starch.
[PJC]

2. Containing or consisting of starch; -- used especially of
foods.
[PJC]

3. Resembling starch; stiff.
[1913 Webster]

4. Stiffened by use of starch; starched[1]; -- of clothing.
[PJC]

5. Formal in manner; precise.

Syn: starch.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet starchy
adj 1: consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" [ant: starchless]
2: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff
and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: stiff,
buckram]
[also: starchiest, starchier]

Moby Dictionary
adhesive , amylaceous , clabbered , clammy , clotted , coagulated ,
curdled , doughy , firm , gaumy , gelatinous , glairy , gluelike , gluey ,
glutenous , glutinose , glutinous , gooey , grumous , gumbo , gumbolike ,
gumlike , gummous , gummy , heavy , inspissated , jelled , jellied ,
jellylike , mucilaginous , pasty , pokerlike , ramrodlike , renitent ,
rigid , rodlike , ropy , slabby , slimy , slithery , starched , sticky ,
stiff , stiff as buckram , stodgy , stringy , syrupy , tacky , taut ,
tenacious , tense , thick , thickened , tight , tough , tremelloid ,
tremellose , unrelaxed , virgate , viscid , viscose , viscous