Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, similar to, or containing yeast: yeasty dough.
- adj. Causing or characterized by unrest or agitation; turbulent: the yeasty days before the new government was established.
- adj. Frothy; frivolous: a yeasty comedy.
- adj. Full of productivity or vitality; exuberantly creative.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. Having or resembling yeast.
- adj. Foamy and frothy.
- adj. Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
- adj. Trivial.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. exuberantly creative
- adj. marked by spirited enjoyment
- adj. of or resembling or containing yeast
Etymologies
- From yeast + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The look-out next morning was dismal – the river running high in yeasty waves; the boats all huddled together under the shore; the western bank hidden in clouds of sand.”
“Up to twenty a boy's years were kind of yeasty and uncertain, and if he was any way self-headed he ought to be left to run.”
“Their articles, it is true, were often a kind of yeasty collection of fond and winnowed opinions, but among these shallow fopperies there would at times be heard a strain of higher mood.”
“This wine has a brilliant, bright straw color with a delightful nose that first attracts with a thick, yeasty flavor before giving way to a fresh, mineral, floral note.”
“Married with a distinctive, nutty, sometimes herbal softness on the palate that can taste quite different to the full yeasty flavor of Champagne, it pairs well with strong cheese and fried white fish.”
“You want a feel of chew; you want a bit of char; you want that yeasty aroma that releases when the dough hits the hot oven - earthy, alive, enticing - like ... well.”
“There are a lot of great lines here about dry, yeasty muffins, and a giant dusty muffin … Good times …”
Kristen Wiig’s Gilly to Host SNL Christmas Special, December 17
“It was yeasty, bitter, as he sat listening to his dreams, the ocean, the grayness flooding him, and sandy shores treading through the center of his vision.”
“Though the scent of the yeasty doughs rising and baking subsumed the tiny place in remarkable smells, I found I didn't always get through a whole loaf, and it all seemed more work than it was worth--especially sweeping up the endless sprays of flour from the apartment that were a result of doing my kneading at the coffee table.”
The Huffington Post: Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Resolved to Bake Bread
“Its texture and yeasty odor remind some people of fresh bread.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yeasty’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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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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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yabba, yabby, yachty, yad, yaff, yaffingale, yag, yager, yahrzeit, yair, yajna, yakhdan and 63 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Liberal Fascism
Words gathered while reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
de rigueur, palingenetic, christianist, himmleresque, invidious, bismarckian, divinize, granitelike, deweyan, fons et origo, kulak, numinousness and 107 more...
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jameslong's Words
tergiversate, ossify, syncretic, agenbite, enwit, doxy, borborygm, pulchritudinous, oxters, fervid, banal, asinine and 102 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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spamdad's Words
lambic, weizenbock, bock, zymurgy, vade mecum, quotidian, sesquipedalian, eremite, sphragis, privation, aegis, sui generis and 275 more...
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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odorific
smelling words
odoriferous, malodorous, heavenly, redolent, putrid, delectable, stagnant, fragrant, smelly, noisome, noxious, fetid and 47 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2004
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
As it turns out, WotD really enjoys repeating itself. Though mildly infuriating it was, I've added the fi...buss, roue, abecedarian, crabwise, glabrous, tarradiddle, irrupt, agrestic, cap-a-pie, fetor, olla podrida, primogeniture and 31 more...
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