mealy

Other forms of mealy

comparative or superlative

mealier

comparative or superlative

mealiest

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 mealy

What does mealy mean?

mealy means "containing meal or made of meal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mealy?

mealy has 2 syllables: mea-ly. The stress falls on "mea". In IPA it is /ˈmili/.

What is another word for mealy?

Close synonyms include farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose. 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 mealy a common word?

mealy 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.

What rhymes with mealy?

1 word rhymes with mealy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.