Adjective: foresty
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more foresty |
| Superlative | most foresty |
Sample Sentences
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On a sunny stone near a foresty bed of asparagus I sat down at last, tired, and a little dispirited. [1921, Walter de La Mare, Memoirs of a Midget:]
Adjectives inflected like foresty
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From forest + -y. Compare English woodsy. See: English Adjectives '
woodsy'.