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Definition: Yeasty |
YeastyAdjective1. Marked by spirited enjoyment. 2. Exuberantly creative. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yeasty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Term applied to certain wines, particularly some flor sherries which tast of yeast. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: YeastySynonyms: zestful (adj), zesty (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Life | Adjective: living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively. (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life; full of life, yeasty. |
Newness | Adjective: new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yeasty |
| English words defined with "yeasty": Samshu ♦ Yeastiness, Yesty. (references) |
| "Yeasty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yeasty" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "yeasty": yeasty waves. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
girl yeasty | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yeasty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me shkumë (scummy, spumy, sudsy), me maja (denticular, denticulated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical), غير ناضج (boyish, embryonic, half-baked, immature, newness, unripe), خميري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ферментиращ, кипящ (ebullient, roaring), в кипеж, неустановен (amorphous, equivocal, irresolute, unadjusted, unestablished, unspecified), неспокоен (anxious, apprehensive, broken, nervous, nervy, raucous, restive, restless, sleepless, spooky, uneasy, unrestful, unsound, worried), незрял (immature, jejune, unripe, vealy, verdant, young), запенен, пуст (bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, harsh, inane, infernal, inhospitable, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, wild), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void), повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery), пенлив (brisk, effervescent, foamy, frothy, lathery, sparkling, spumous, spumy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pìnivý (effervescent, foamy, frothy, spumous, spumy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gæragtig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gistsmaak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخمرمانند, خمیرمایه دار, خمیردار, دارای ماده تخمیری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hiivainen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | superficiel, sans consistance, qui a un goût de levure, goût de levure, frivole, écumeux, l'odeur de levure. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hefig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεύση ζύμης, προζυμικόσ, ελαφρόσ (buoyant, feathery, flippant, frivolous, gentle, light, lightsome, resilient, skin deep, slight), αφρώδησ (barmy, foamy, frothy, lathery, souffle, sparkling, spumous, spumy, surfy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תסיס (fermentable, fermenting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | élesztõs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berbuih (spume, spumous, spumy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | simile a lievito, gusto di livieti, gusto di fermenti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jiastynagh (barmy), jasteeagh (barmy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yeastyay semelhante a levedura, sabor a levedura, gosto a levedura, com espuma (barmy), coberto de espuma (foamy). (various references) superficial (cursory, external, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, trivial), spumos (barmy, brisk, foamy, frothy, lathery, scummy, sparkling), fãrã consistenţã, care fermenteazã, înspumat (foamy). (various references) бродящий, пенистый (barmy, foamy, frothy, scummy, spumous, spumy, sudsy). (various references) u previranju (barmy), kao kvasac. (various references) gusto a levadura, a levadura. (various references) ytlig (airy, flashy, flimsy, idleheaded, shallow, skin deep, superfical, superficial), skummande (barmy, browse, frothy), orolig (alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, fussy, restless, turbulent, uneasy, unsettled, worried), luftig (airy, diaphanous, fluffy, light), jästton, jäst-, jäsande (fermenting). (various references) mayalı (barmy, fermented, leavened, raised), maya gibi, köpüklü (barmy, beady, fizzy, foamy, frothy, sparkling, spumous, spumy, sudsy), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless). (various references) пустий (addle, airy, bald, bare, barren, baseless, begging, chaffy, empty, frothy, otiose, sounding, vacant, vacuous, vain, void), пінистий (barmy, brisk, foamy, frothy, lathery, scummy, spumous, white-headed), дріжджовий. (various references) rỗng tuếch, b"ng bột hời hợt, đầy bọt sôi sục. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Yeasty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eastie, Ieast, yaset, yast, yeastly, yeaut, yeist, Yelstin, Yesayan, yesy, yrast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-s-t-y-y" | |
-1 letter: yeast. | |
-2 letters: ates, ayes, east, easy, eats, etas, eyas, sate, seat, seta, stay, stey, stye, teas, tyes, yays, yeas. | |
-3 letters: ate, aye, ays, eat, eta, sae, sat, say, sea, set, sty, tae, tas, tea, tye, yay, yea, yes, yet. | |
-4 letters: ae, as, at, ay, es, et, ta, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-s-t-y-y" | |
+2 letters: yeastily. | |
+3 letters: asymmetry, entryways, sympetaly, yesterday. | |
+4 letters: drysaltery, karyotypes, pyrolysate, yesterdays, yesteryear, yottabytes. | |
+5 letters: axisymmetry, glycosylate, hydrolysate, pyrolysates, pyrolyzates, yesteryears. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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