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WORMY (wormier, wormiest)
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, wormiest Dictionary entry overview: What does wormy mean?
• WORMY (adjective)
The adjective WORMY has 2 senses:
1. infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
2. totally submissive
Familiarity information: WORMY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: wormiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
Synonyms:
vermiculate; worm-eaten; wormy
Similar:
worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)
Derivation:
worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Totally submissive
Synonyms:
cringing; groveling; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
Similar:
submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)
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