Adjective: sealy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sealy |
| Superlative | most sealy |
Sample Sentences
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If you reply that, on the contrary, the seal's legs, such as they are, are very characteristic, he takes refuge in the atrocious admission, delivered with a French accent, that they are certainly very sealy legs. [1893 February, Arthur Morrison, “Zig-Zags at the Zoo: VIII. Zig-Zag Phocine”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume V, number 26, London: George Newnes, Ltd., […], →OCLC, page 130:]
Adjectives inflected like sealy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From seal + -y.