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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
starchy
    adj 1: consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" [ant:
           starchless]
    2: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and
       formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy,
       stiff, buckram]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
starchy \starch"y\ (-[y^]), a.
   1. Of or pertaining to starch.
      [PJC]

   2. Containing or consisting of starch; -- used especially of
      foods.
      [PJC]

   3. Resembling starch; stiff.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. Stiffened by use of starch; starched[1]; -- of clothing.
      [PJC]

   5. Formal in manner; precise.

   Syn: starch.
        [1913 Webster]
Thesaurus Results for starchy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, mucilaginous, pasty, pokerlike, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starched, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, thickened, tight, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unrelaxed, virgate, viscid, viscose, viscous
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