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bunchy

bunchy

1 6.0
Having parts that grow close together in small groups like grapes or flowers
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌn.tʃi/
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  • The brawny people in the pictures wore skimpy shifts with slits up the sides or loose, bunchy shorts.

If you layer it a few times up, it gets very, very bunchy and I'm just not a fan.

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Examples

  • This plant, with its stalks of small, bunchy flowers, is known in the industry for its spicy-sweet fragrance.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The gardener admired the bunchy flowers that grew together in vibrant clusters.

  • Look at my little bunchy, look at my hair.

  • Still, it's collected kind of bunchy in the corner.

  • If you layer it a few times up, it gets very, very bunchy and I'm just not a fan.

    Tati

  • It's impossible to shove a full-length sleeve into those darn things; they get bunchy and wrinkly and make everyone full of rage.

    Blog text (14)

  • It wasn't so much a beach robe as the swimsuit underneath, the feeling of it, crumpled and bunchy and saggy.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Her hairstyle was quite bunchy, with several sections curling together.

  • The fabric of the shirt looked bunchy around the seams, creating an uneven appearance.

Synonyms

clumpy
vsbunchy
3 4.7

Full of small lumps that stick together

forms tidy groups of closely growing small clusters rather than irregular lumps
agglomerative
vsbunchy
9.1

Gathered into a single mass that has no clear order

forms separate close clusters rather than an incoherent single mass

Antonyms

sparse
31 5.0

Present in small numbers or amounts

How Clustered

dense
9 3.2
clustered
4.1
bunchy
1 6.0
loose
70 1.0
scattered
1 3.6
sparse
31 5.0

Surface Forms

bunchy positive

Morphology

bunchy = bunch (transparent) = bunch + y

The adjective 'bunchy' is transparently derived from the noun 'bunch' with the suffix '-y' indicating a characteristic of forming or resembling a bunch.

Etymology

Bunchy comes from the common word bunch, meaning a 'group' of things, plus the ending -y, which means 'full of'. So bunchy describes something that is 'full of bunches' or that grows close together, like a bunch of grapes or flowers.