Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with moss or something like moss: mossy banks.
- adj. Resembling moss.
- adj. Old-fashioned; antiquated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss
- adj. Resembling moss.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
- adj. overgrown with moss
Etymologies
- moss + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“‘I can only conclude that mossy is scared of me,’ said belac.”
Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
“Of course, much of the hunting clothing market is high-priced but you can easily find good-quality hunting clothing in mossy oak etc but not so much in outfitter camo and digicam.”
“I bought the Cabelas scentlok version in mossy oak, it was about 200 bucks ....”
“Chypre perfumes are often described as mossy, earthy, warm, spicy and nature-smelling.”
“Oh, I’m just an optimistic person, ralph … I really believe that mossy is gonna find a job that won’t be so personally degrading soon, there’s an opening on the right for a bad fake 70’s pimp coming up I hear ….”
Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
“He was studying a particular type of brain neuron, called mossy cells, which are often damaged in people with epilepsy and are part of the hippocampus.”
“So I started with a base of that CIM color that looks kind of mossy green, anyone know the name? and I added some stripes and details.”
“If an emerald is already badly shattered, or as it is called "mossy" in character, it will not be wise to set it in a ring, as a slight shock might complete its fracture.”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“A fringed wrister may be made on the foundation described by holding a pencil on lengthwise with the left hand, and with the right sewing over and over it; make the rows quite close together, cut the wound yarn open with a pair of sharp scissors, and brush lightly across it, back and forth, until the cut ends become "mossy" or fluffed up.”
“Our ship did not look smart; on the contrary it looked so untidy that it had a kind of mossy, woolly, licheny appearance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mossy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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gre words
convoluted, deride, melancholy, antagonize, antagonize, deference, portentous, prodigious, ruminate, ineffable, turgid, mossy and 58 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1894 more...
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Ophelia
Words to describe John Everett Millais' Ophelia
biology, biosphere, community, habitat, biotic, vivacious, nature, natural, detail, ecology ecosystem, dense, elaborate and 33 more...
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aykut gre
mossy, intrusive, mettlesome, soliloquy, mocking, dissembler, prevarication, histrionics, aphorism, distinction, concise, pensive and 61 more...
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Lillyjames's Words
uncategorized words that I enjoy
replete, unabashed, dauntless, ubiquitous, fanged, blush, flush, murmur, mercurial, dishevelled, decrepit, raven and 146 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 153 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Feather, Mug, Knit, Socks, Snug, Soft, Butter, Nugget, Noodle, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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GRE vocab
martinet, churlish, polyglot, aplomb, dissembler, histrionics, prevarication, ignominy, impugn, fastidious, trenchant, perfunctory and 155 more...
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GRE
predisposed, browbeaten, hegemonic, corollary, mendacity, remnant, futile, touchstone, upshot, intuition, perseverance, perk and 214 more...
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New GRE Preparation List
All the words which I encounter during my GRE studies. :)
rhetoric, errant, arrant, artless, artful, ephemeral, libel, rhapsody, cloy, conjecture, relegate, aberrant and 927 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
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RoughOctober's list
nature, steampunk, weather, colors, and other assorted (sometimes moody) words
beetle, barn, beacon, water, engine, typhoon, doldrums, leaves, mica, steam, bowgrace, leaf and 121 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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