YEASTY (yeastier, yeastiest)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: yeastier    , yeastiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does yeasty mean? 

• YEASTY (adjective)
  The adjective YEASTY has 3 senses:

1. of or resembling or containing yeast

2. marked by spirited enjoyment

3. exuberantly creative

  Familiarity information: YEASTY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEASTY (adjective)

Comparative: yeastier   
Superlative: yeastiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or resembling or containing yeast

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

yeastlike; yeasty

Pertainym:

yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)

Derivation:

yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)

yeast (a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by spirited enjoyment

Synonyms:

barmy; yeasty; zestful; zesty

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exuberantly creative

Similar:

creative; originative (having the ability or power to create)

 Context examples 

I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nor will the eternal movelessness that is coming to me be made easier or harder by the sacrifices or selfishnesses of the time when I was yeasty and acrawl.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But with nothing eternal before me but death, given for a brief spell this yeasty crawling and squirming which is called life, why, it would be immoral for me to perform any act that was a sacrifice.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach, his bandaged arm prominently to the fore, begged me to leave a few remnants of the cook for him; and Wolf Larsen paused once or twice at the break of the poop to glance curiously at what must have been to him a stirring and crawling of the yeasty thing he knew as life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)