7-Letter Adjectives Ending With Y

Here's the list of all the 434 7-Letter Adjectives Ending With Y in the English Language.

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quality
1. of superior grade
2. of high social status
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summary
1. performed speedily and without formality
2. briefly giving the gist of something
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primary
1. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
2. not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
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monthly
1. of or occurring or payable every month
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healthy
1. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
2. financially secure and functioning well
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utility
1. used of beef; usable but inferior
2. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
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elderly
1. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
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dietary
1. of or relating to the diet
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naughty
1. suggestive of sexual impropriety
2. badly behaved
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nightly
1. happening every night
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sensory
1. involving or derived from the senses
2. relating to or concerned in sensation
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wealthy
1. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
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urinary
1. of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine
2. of or relating to the urinary system of the body
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standby
1. ready for emergency use
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unhappy
1. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
2. generalized feeling of distress
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lengthy
1. relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
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seventy
1. being ten more than sixty
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halfway
1. equally distant from the extremes
2. at a point midway between two extremes
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plenary
1. full in all respects
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runaway
1. completely out of control
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grizzly
1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
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orderly
1. clean or organized
2. devoid of violence or disruption
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earthly
1. of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven
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thrifty
1. mindful of the future in spending money
2. careful and diligent in the use of resources
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unitary
1. relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity
2. of or pertaining to or involving the use of units
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worldly
1. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
2. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
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thirsty
1. feeling a need or desire to drink
2. needing moisture
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stately
1. impressive in size, manner, or appearance
2. of size and dignity suggestive of a statue
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hydroxy
1. being or containing a hydroxyl group
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raunchy
1. earthy and sexually explicit
2. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
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mammary
1. of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female
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uncanny
1. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
2. surpassing the ordinary or normal
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unlucky
1. having or bringing misfortune
2. marked by or promising bad fortune
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ghostly
1. resembling or characteristic of a phantom
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hearsay
1. heard through another rather than directly
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cleanly
1. habitually clean
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biliary
1. relating to or containing bile
2. relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder
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shadowy
1. filled with shade
2. lacking clarity or distinctness
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silvery
1. resembling or reminiscent of silver
2. having the white lustrous sheen of silver
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flowery
1. of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
2. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
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prickly
1. very irritable
2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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squeaky
1. having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge
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sketchy
1. giving only major points; lacking completeness
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ghastly
1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
2. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
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weighty
1. powerfully persuasive
2. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
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buttery
1. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
2. resembling or containing or spread with butter
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faraway
1. very far away in space or time
2. far removed mentally
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cursory
1. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
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velvety
1. smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
2. resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
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ternary
1. having three units or components or elements
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sparkly
1. marked by high spirits or excitement
2. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
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powdery
1. consisting of fine particles
2. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder
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ungodly
1. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin
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haughty
1. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
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scrappy
1. full of fighting spirit
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savoury
1. morally wholesome or acceptable
2. having an agreeably pungent taste
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scruffy
1. shabby and untidy
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cockney
1. characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect
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shapely
1. having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape
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squishy
1. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
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saintly
1. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
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grouchy
1. annoyed and irritable
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beastly
1. (informal) very unpleasant
2. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
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jittery
1. characterized by jerky movements
2. being in a tense state
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ciliary
1. relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye
2. of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
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stringy
1. lean and sinewy
2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
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courtly
1. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
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womanly
1. befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
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rubbery
1. having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness
2. difficult to chew
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rickety
1. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
2. affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
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deathly
1. having the physical appearance of death
2. causing or capable of causing death
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unfunny
1. not funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor
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flyaway
1. guided by whim and fancy
2. (of hair or clothing) worn loose
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summery
1. belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer
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finicky
1. exacting especially about details
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starchy
1. rigidly formal
2. consisting of or containing starch
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wrinkly
1. marked by wrinkles
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streaky
1. marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
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scrawny
1. being very thin
2. inferior in size or quality
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peppery
1. having the piquant burning taste of peppers
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springy
1. elastic; rebounds readily
2. (of movements) light and confidently active
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preachy
1. inclined to or marked by tedious moralization
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crumbly
1. easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
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7-Letter Adjectives Ending With Y