"earthy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɜː.θi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɝθi/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-earthy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: earthier [comparative], earthiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θi Etymology: From Middle English erthy, equivalent to earth + -y. Compare German erdig (“earthy”), Swedish jordig (“earthy”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|erthy}} Middle English erthy, {{suf|en|earth|y|id2=adjectival}} earth + -y, {{cog|de|erdig|t=earthy}} German erdig (“earthy”), {{cog|sv|jordig|t=earthy}} Swedish jordig (“earthy”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} earthy (comparative earthier, superlative earthiest)
  1. Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth). Translations (resembling dirt or soil): почвен (počven) (Bulgarian), пръстен (prǎsten) (Bulgarian), aardeachtig (Dutch), aardig (Dutch), terreiro (Galician), terreus (Latin), земляной (zemljanoj) (Russian), землистый (zemlistyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-earthy-en-adj-CtlNos8k Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 19 10 29 24 17 Disambiguation of 'resembling dirt or soil': 75 1 1 0 23
  2. Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural. Translations (down to earth): груб (grub) (Bulgarian), естествен (estestven) (Bulgarian), met de voeten op de grond (Dutch), natuurlijk (Dutch), непосредственный (neposredstvennyj) (Russian), земной (zemnoj) (Russian), житейский (žitejskij) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-earthy-en-adj-lafg2Ojs Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 19 10 29 24 17 Disambiguation of 'down to earth': 5 58 7 18 12
  3. (figurative) Coarse and unrefined, crude. Tags: figuratively Translations ((figurative) coarse and unrefined, crude): грубый (grubyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-earthy-en-adj-WUWNeNfM Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 19 10 29 24 17 Disambiguation of '(figurative) coarse and unrefined, crude': 0 2 96 1 1
  4. Like or resembling the earth or of the earth. Translations (resembling or of the earth): земен (zemen) (Bulgarian), aardeachtig (Dutch), corposo (Italian)
    Sense id: en-earthy-en-adj-3UtK5ifL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 9 29 45 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 19 10 29 24 17 Disambiguation of 'resembling or of the earth': 12 7 0 55 26
  5. Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
    Sense id: en-earthy-en-adj-a7w1XQJw Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 19 10 29 24 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: terreous [obsolete] Derived forms: earthily, earthiness Related terms: earthish, Earthish, earthly, salt of the earth

Inflected forms

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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.