blasty

English

Etymology

From blast +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æsti

Adjective

blasty (comparative blastier, superlative blastiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.
2. (obsolete) Affected by blasts; gusty.
3. (now rare) Causing blast or injury.
   • 2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir‎^[1]:

     The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.

   • 2015, Ethan Mordden, Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s‎^[2]:

     The Yearling took in soprano Dolores Wilson, leprechaun David Wayne, and some blasty kids.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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