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GERMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does germy mean?
• GERMY (adjective)
The adjective GERMY has 1 sense:
1. full of germs or pathological microorganisms
Familiarity information: GERMY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of germs or pathological microorganisms
Context example:
the water in New York harbor is oily and dirty and germy
Similar:
unsterilised; unsterilized (not sterilized)
Also:
infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)
Antonym:
germfree (free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile)
Derivation:
germ (a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use)
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