Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having great mass or bulk; massive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Compacted into or consisting of a mass; possessing great mass or bulk; massive.
- Being in mass; consisting of masses; made up of large or heavy parts.
- Synonyms Massive, Ponderous, etc. See bulky.
Wiktionary
- adj. Heavy; massive.
- n. Eye dialect spelling of mercy.
- n. Eye dialect spelling of master.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight or substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weighty; heavy.
Etymologies
- mass + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It seemed quite filled with large bright clouds, resembling immense banks of snow, piled on each other in massy numbers, of the purest white; wreathing their ample folds in various forms and devious convolutions, and mingling in one vast embrace their shadowy substance.”
“If the latter, no edition is rightly stopped; for, of course, there should be a comma after "massy;" and then I somewhat doubt the propriety of "proof" for”
“I don't think 3 idiots is 'massy' enough to open anywhere near Ghajini.”
“What does messy massy care, he has insurance policies on all the miners.”
Think Progress » Shareholders call on Massey Energy to fire Don Blankenship.
“They are solid, massy blocks of mirror-finished aluminum, plated with a light-devouring black chrome.”
The Washington Post: John and Joe Dumbacher exhibit minimal sculptures in 'Cut,' part of BackroomNY
“LONDON—The massy concrete construction of the Hayward Gallery is usually considered a gruff example of Brutalist architecture, but Tracey Emin is pleased to be having a huge retrospective, "Love Is What You Want," there, even saying she finds its internal, curving spaces feminine.”
The Wall Street Journal: You Can Have Too Much of What You Want
“A thousand feet in depth below, / Its massy waters meet and flow".”
“Now comes Rude Britannia, an exhibition of satiric art and cartoon which, if any were needed, provides ample confirmation of not just how deeply the satiric taproot is sunk into British soil, but how crucial its vigorous propagation has always been to our constitution? both political and psychological? while its massy canopy has, for centuries, protected our civil liberties, such as they are.”
The Guardian: Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
“No way to tell from the photo if it's very massy or just moving very fast in another spatial dimension.”
“Her skin held the sheen of stardust and her hair, dark, massy waves of silk, seemed to float about her like a black halo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘massy’.
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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Rabindranath Not Included
i can't never forget thiccyn's!
bubaline, dezinkhornifistib..., hirundine, bee veil, cuckoo spit, resistentialism, hobthrush, burniebee, hookem-snivey, fattiehead, mompyns, mons and 142 more...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of ...
Words I met while reading Cervantes' story.
lance, hale, lanthorn-jaws, knight-errantry, nay, expostulate, puling, massy, agreeable delusions, pasteboard, bestrid, sallied and 148 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "'Mr Pullings, a bosun's chair, if you please, a whip for the dunnage, and pass the word for the children.'
"The cry ran through the ship 'Children aft — children report to the Captain — all children aft' and Jack's two little girls came running from the galley, grasping massy half-eaten slabs of cold plum-duff, followed by George, their younger brother, in his first pair of pantaloons, carried by a hairy quartermaster."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 24-25 Feb 10, 2008