Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth: an earthy smell.
- adj. Of or characteristic of this world; worldly.
- adj. Crude or off-color; indecent: an earthy joke.
- adj. Hearty or uninhibited; natural: an earthy enjoyment of life.
- adj. Unadorned and simple in style: an earthy homemade stew.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to earth; consisting of earth; partaking of the nature of earth; terrene: as, earthy matter.
- Resembling earth or some of the properties of earth: as, an earthy taste or smell.
- Inhabiting the earth; earthly.
- Gross; not refined.
- In mineralogy, without luster, or dull, and roughish to the touch.
- In chem., having the general character of the substances known as earths, and of their compounds: as, an earthy salt.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
- adj. Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
- adj. Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
- adj. Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike.
- adj. rare Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.
- adj. Gross; low; unrefined.
- adj. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or consisting of or resembling earth
- adj. not far removed from or suggestive of nature
- adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- adj. sensible and practical
- adj. hearty and lusty
Examples
“In fact, he's been hunting for what he calls "earthy, timeless pieces" since he was 18.”
“Line Knitwear showed four fairly good looks in earthy tones with a standout pair of salmon colored leather cropped wide leg pants.”
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“But Montaigne says that such behavior is wrong: “I crawl in earthy slime but I do not fail to note, way up in the clouds, the matchless height of certain souls.””
“Of course, these are the same folks who think God created fossils to "look" 50 million years old, even though the earthy is "really" only 5,000 years old, so their use of the analytical method is hardly something I'd have a lot of faith in.”
“At last she recognised it; it was a familiar odour, a peculiar smell, of the kind we call earthy: -- it was the air of her own earth-house, in days that seemed far away!”
“About the massive crowd that we saw today as we are looking at these pictures that he drew in Portland about the so-called earthy residents about Oregon.”
“This vetiver could be described as earthy and perhaps a tad smoky and woody and quite musky.”
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“Wherefore should I sorrow for what I eat, for what I drink, or for what I may array this miserable food for worms called my earthy body?”
“She can be rather, ahem, earthy, which is a polite way of saying crude.”
“The theory thought of the re-formation of a metal from its calx, that is, the earthy substance which remains after combustion, as the combination of two things to produce one, apparently homogeneous, substance.”
Lists
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odorific
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