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waspy

waspy

8.4
Looking like a wasp with a narrow waist or black-and-yellow stripes
  • adjective
  • /ˈwɑːspi/
translation icon : de cintura de avispa
  • The dress had a waspy design with black and yellow stripes.

Examples

  • Her new dress had a waspy silhouette with bold, striped patterns.

  • She wore a waspy belt that accentuated her waist.

  • The model wore a waspy belt that accentuated her narrow waist.

  • The insect's waspy coloring made it easy to mistake for a real wasp.

  • The insect's waspy coloring made it easy to mistake for a real wasp.

  • Her new dress had a waspy silhouette with bold, striped patterns.

  • The model wore a waspy belt that accentuated her narrow waist.

Synonyms

wasp-waisted
vswaspy
8.8

A body shape with a very small waist compared with the rest of the body

is broader, meaning insectlike appearance including stripes not only waist
wasplike
vswaspy
6.0

Looking or acting like a wasp

focuses on visual traits like narrow waist or stripes rather than behavior

Antonyms

round
273 1.0

Having the shape of a circle or sphere

Compounds

non-WASPy root
  • US
9.9

A family background from a culture that is not White Protestant

How Wasp-like

waspy
8.4
banded
4.1
striped
9 1.0

Surface Forms

waspy positive

Morphology

waspy = wasp (transparent) = wasp + y

A direct adjectival formation meaning 'having qualities of a wasp' (appearance), which learners can derive from the base word.

Etymology

Waspy comes from the insect wasp and the idea of a narrow 'waist' or black-and-yellow stripes, just like a wasp's body. So waspy can describe a shape or style that looks thin at the middle or has strong, stripe-like patterns.