GRASSY (grassier, grassiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: grassier    , grassiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does grassy mean? 

• GRASSY (adjective)
  The adjective GRASSY has 1 sense:

1. abounding in grass

  Familiarity information: GRASSY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRASSY (adjective)

Comparative: grassier   
Superlative: grassiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abounding in grass

Similar:

grass-covered (covered with grass)

grasslike (resembling grass)

rushlike; sedgelike (resembling rush or sedge)

sedgy (covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants))

Antonym:

grassless (lacking grass)

Derivation:

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

 Context examples 

With this as our support, we were soon able to scramble up the jagged wall until we found ourselves upon the small grassy platform, some twenty-five feet each way, which formed the summit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, when they were rested, Dorothy picked up her basket and they started along the grassy bank, to the road from which the river had carried them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

As he spoke the attendant cantered up the grassy enclosure, and pulling up his steed in front of the royal stand, blew a second fanfare upon his bugle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which stood high upon a grassy headland, we looked down upon the whole sinister semi-circle of Mounts Bay, that old death trap of sailing vessels, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs on which innumerable seamen have met their end.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In and out amongst these green hills of what they call here the Mittel Land ran the road, losing itself as it swept round the grassy curve, or was shut out by the straggling ends of pine woods, which here and there ran down the hillsides like tongues of flame.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She put on her hat and jacket as noiselessly as possible, and going to the back entry window, got out upon the roof of a low porch, swung herself down to the grassy bank, and took a roundabout way to the road.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word Resurgam.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lord John and I had remained in our camp, while a number of the Indians were scattered about upon the grassy slope in front of the caves engaged in different ways.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the morning of the day on which the courses were to be run, not less than eighty people had assembled round the lists and along the low grassy ridge which looks down upon the scene of the encounter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)