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Yeasty

Definition: Yeasty

Yeasty

Adjective

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Yeasty

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Yeasty

Synonyms: zestful (adj), zesty (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Yeasty

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Yeasty

English words defined with "yeasty": SamshuYeastiness, Yesty. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Yeasty

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Yeasty

Expression using "yeasty": yeasty waves. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Yeasty

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

girl yeasty

2
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Modern Translation: Yeasty

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

   

Portuguese

  

semelhante a levedura, sabor a levedura, gosto a levedura, com espuma (barmy), coberto de espuma (foamy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

бродящий, пенистый (barmy, foamy, frothy, scummy, spumous, spumy, sudsy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u previranju (barmy), kao kvasac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gusto a levadura, a levadura. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rỗng tuếch, b"ng bột hời hợt, đầy bọt sôi sục. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Yeasty

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).

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Anagrams: Yeasty

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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