CREAMY (creamier, creamiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: creamier    , creamiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does creamy mean? 

• CREAMY (adjective)
  The adjective CREAMY has 2 senses:

1. of the color of cream

2. thick like cream

  Familiarity information: CREAMY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREAMY (adjective)

Comparative: creamier   
Superlative: creamiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the color of cream

Context example:

creamy translucent pebbles

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Thick like cream

Similar:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

Derivation:

cream (the part of milk containing the butterfat)

creaminess (the property of having the thickness of heavy cream)

 Context examples 

"Thank you, I prefer spiders," she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The corridor which led to the room was laid down with a kind of creamy linoleum which shows an impression very easily.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A creamy, white crystalline substance.

(Cupferron, NCI Thesaurus)