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YEASTY (yeastier, yeastiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: yeastier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, yeastiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does yeasty mean? 

YEASTY (adjective)
  The adjective YEASTY has 3 senses:

1. of or resembling or containing yeastplay

2. marked by spirited enjoymentplay

3. exuberantly creativeplay

  Familiarity information: YEASTY used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


YEASTY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: yeastier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: yeastiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or resembling or containing yeast

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

yeastlike; yeasty

Pertainym:

yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)

Derivation:

yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)

yeast (a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by spirited enjoyment

Synonyms:

barmy; yeasty; zestful; zesty

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Exuberantly creative

Similar:

creative; originative (having the ability or power to create)


 Context examples 


I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nor will the eternal movelessness that is coming to me be made easier or harder by the sacrifices or selfishnesses of the time when I was yeasty and acrawl.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But with nothing eternal before me but death, given for a brief spell this yeasty crawling and squirming which is called life, why, it would be immoral for me to perform any act that was a sacrifice.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leach, his bandaged arm prominently to the fore, begged me to leave a few remnants of the cook for him; and Wolf Larsen paused once or twice at the break of the poop to glance curiously at what must have been to him a stirring and crawling of the yeasty thing he knew as life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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