Usually means: Contains high levels of carbohydrates.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Starchy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. starchy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. starchy: Merriam-Webster
  3. starchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. starchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. starchy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. starchy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Starchy, starchy: Wordnik
  8. starchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. starchy: Wiktionary
  10. starchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. starchy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. starchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. starchy: Dictionary.com
  14. starchy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Starchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. starchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. starchy: Rhymezone
  18. Starchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. starchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. starchy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. starchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. starchy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starchy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starchy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starchy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. starchy: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starchy, starchy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Starchy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See starchier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (starchy)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to starch.
▸ adjective:  Containing starch.
▸ adjective:  Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
▸ adjective:  Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.

Similar:
starchlike, amyloid, amylaceous, amyloidal, stiff, buckram, formal, amyl, stromatic, amylometric, more...

Opposite:
nonstarchy, unstarchy

Types:
potato, corn, tapioca, arrowroot, flour, bread, more...

Phrases:
starchy plants, starchy thickener, tropical starchy root, starchy palms, starchy andean staple, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, white, very, non, endosperm, high, purple, soft, somewhat, quite

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Similar:
starchlike, amyloid, amylaceous, amyloidal, stiff, buckram, formal, amyl, stromatic, amylometric, more...

Opposite:
nonstarchy, unstarchy

Types:
potato, corn, tapioca, arrowroot, flour, bread, more...

Phrases:
starchy plants, starchy thickener, tropical starchy root, starchy palms, starchy andean staple, starchy side dish, heavy starchy food, starchy vegetable, starchy root, starchy veggie, pacific starchy roots, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, white, very, non, endosperm, high, purple, soft, somewhat, quite



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