Meaning

2 senses
  1. Covered with grass.

    a grassy knoll

    We threw his grassy shorts straight into the washing machine.

    grasbewachsen

    трав'янистийtravʺjanystyj

    abounding in grass

  2. Resembling grass.

    grasig

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Ivan walked through a grassy field.

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  2. We used to play over by that grassy knoll.

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  3. Tom was on the grassy knoll with a rifle.

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  4. Miroslav found a nice grassy spot where he set up his tent.

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  5. Leonid was walking across a grassy field in the middle of the woods.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
covered with grass:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
covered with grass:
resembling grass:

Origin

From Middle English grasy, from Old English *græsiġ, *gærsiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *gr

From Middle English grasy, from Old English *græsiġ, *gærsiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grasagrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grasagrōniz, equivalent to grass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian gäärsich (“grassy”), Dutch grazig (“grassy”), German grasig (“grassy”), Icelandic grösugur (“grassy”).

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Forms

grassier, grassiest
Comparativegrassier Lesson
Superlativegrassiest Lesson

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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