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starchy

Pronunciation:  'stârtshee

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Matching Terms:  starch, starch wheat, starched, starchedness, starcher, starchless, starchlike, starchly, starchness, starchwort

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
  2. [adj]  consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods"
 
 Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, buckram, formal, starchlike, stiff
 
 Antonyms: starchless
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Starch"y\, a.
Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

 

 

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