clubby

Other forms of clubby

comparative or superlative

clubbier

comparative or superlative

clubbiest

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 clubby

What does clubby mean?

clubby means "effusively sociable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clubby?

clubby has 2 syllables: club-by. The stress falls on "club". In IPA it is /ˈklʌbi/.

What is another word for clubby?

Close synonyms include clubbish, clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby. 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 clubby a common word?

clubby is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.