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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. consisting of or containing starch;
- Example: "starchy foods"

2. rigidly formal;
- Example: "a starchy manner"
- Example: "the letter was stiff and formal"
- Example: "his prose has a buckram quality"
[syn: starchy, stiff, buckram]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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 (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: starchy, stiff, buckram]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "starchy": 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