burry

Other forms of burry

comparative or superlative

burrier

comparative or superlative

burriest

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 burry

What does burry mean?

burry means "having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.".

How many syllables are in burry?

burry has 2 syllables: bur-ry. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /ˈbɝi/.

What is another word for burry?

Close synonyms include barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled. 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 burry a common word?

burry 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.