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FRUITY (fruitier, fruitiest)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: fruitier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, fruitiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruity mean? 

FRUITY (adjective)
  The adjective FRUITY has 2 senses:

1. tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruitplay

2. informal or slang terms for mentally irregularplay

  Familiarity information: FRUITY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRUITY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: fruitier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: fruitiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit

Similar:

tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)

Derivation:

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Synonyms:

around the bend; balmy; barmy; bats; batty; bonkers; buggy; cracked; crackers; daft; dotty; fruity; haywire; kookie; kooky; loco; loony; loopy; nuts; nutty; round the bend; wacky; whacky

Context example:

it used to drive my husband balmy

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)


 Context examples 


Ethyl pyruvate, which has a fruity smell and is approved as a flavor agent in food, blocked attraction of mosquitoes to a human hand.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

The compounds also have a variety of floral and fruity odors that are important in tomato taste.

(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase, oxidase, gelatinase and urease positive, does not reduce nitrate, hydrolyze esculin, produce indole, or acidify glucose, but does produce a yellow pigment with a characteristic fruity odor, and is resistant to multiple antibiotics.

(Myroides odoratus, NCI Thesaurus)



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