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PULPY (pulpier, pulpiest)
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, pulpiest Dictionary entry overview: What does pulpy mean?
• PULPY (adjective)
The adjective PULPY has 1 sense:
1. like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
Familiarity information: PULPY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: pulpiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
Synonyms:
pulpy; squashy
Similar:
nonwoody (not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood)
Derivation:
pulp (any soft or soggy mass)
pulpiness (a mushy pulpy softness)
Context examples
The pulpy remnant he dropped back into the pan and turned away, and I had a sharp vision of how it might have fared with me had the monster put his real strength upon me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was the treatment he had received from the time he was a little pulpy boy in a San Francisco slum—soft clay in the hands of society and ready to be formed into something.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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