balmy

Other forms of balmy

comparative or superlative

balmier

comparative or superlative

balmiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about balmy

What does balmy mean?

balmy means "informal or slang terms for mentally irregular". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in balmy?

balmy has 2 syllables: bal-my. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbɑmi/.

What is another word for balmy?

Close synonyms include barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balmy a common word?

balmy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.