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BLISTERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blistery mean?
• BLISTERY (adjective)
The adjective BLISTERY has 2 senses:
1. hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
2. covered with small blisters
Familiarity information: BLISTERY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
Synonyms:
blistering; blistery
Context example:
blistering sun
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with small blisters
Synonyms:
blebby; blistery
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Derivation:
blister ((pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid)
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