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clothy

clothy

6.5
Having the feel or look of cloth
  • adjective
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  • The tablecloth had a soft, clothy texture that enhanced the dining experience.

Examples

  • She wore a clothy jacket that felt warm and comfortable against her skin.

  • The artist used a clothy canvas to depict the serene landscape.

  • Her close presence feels huge, checked, clothy, a cloud come over him like the shadow of that hull on its side out there on the Gulf, where it was cold and hot both at once.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The paper, the ink, the cover, what Updike called "the charming little clothy box of the thing"—we understand without having it pointed out how much these add to the experience of reading.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Long, green, knob-jointed fingers worked the tweed brim into a clothy mush, claws the color of aged ivory fraying the thick fabric.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

clothlike
vsclothy
2.8

It looks and feels like cloth, soft and flexible

also includes items actually made of cloth not only resembling it

Surface Forms

clothy positive

Morphology

clothy = cloth (transparent) = cloth + y

The adjective is directly formed from 'cloth' + the productive adjectival suffix '-y', meaning made of or resembling cloth, which is easily understood by learners.

Etymology

Clothy comes from the common word cloth plus the ending -y, where -y means 'like' or 'full of'. So, clothy means 'made of or like cloth', and you can remember it as something that feels or looks like fabric, such as a soft blanket or a cloth cover.