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WORMY (wormier, wormiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: wormier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, wormiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wormy mean? 

WORMY (adjective)
  The adjective WORMY has 2 senses:

1. infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by wormsplay

2. totally submissiveplay

  Familiarity information: WORMY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WORMY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: wormier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: wormiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms

Synonyms:

vermiculate; worm-eaten; wormy

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

Derivation:

worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Totally submissive

Synonyms:

cringing; groveling; grovelling; wormlike; wormy

Similar:

submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)


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