| ADJECTIVE | all | starchy | consisting of or containing starch |
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| all | starchy, stiff, buckram | rigidly formal |
| Sounds | staa'rchiy | |
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| Rhymes | apache / Apache ... Versace: 31 rhymes with chiy... | |
| Meaning | Consisting of or containing starch. | |
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| Example | "starchy foods" | |
| Narrower | starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous | resembling starch |
| Opposite | starchless | lacking starch |
| Nouns | starch | a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice |
| Meaning | rigidly formal. | |
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| Example | "a starchy manner" | |
| Synonyms | stiff, buckram | |
| Broader | formal | In accord / accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) |
| Catalan | formal | |
| Spanish | formal | |