earthy
Because it is a word with a single syllable, earthy is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofearthy
- Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
Example: "The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me."
- Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.
Example: "She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization."
- Coarse and unrefined, crude.
Example: "earthy humour"
- Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
- Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
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