pasty

Speech parts

1. pasty - Noun

2. pasty - Adjective

3. pasty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sticky viscous glutinous gummy mucilaginous gluey viscid pastelike wan patty cornish milky marly pate peaky
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Antonyms

scarlet crimson brown dahlia black redden
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Hypernyms

patch meat pie

Hyponyms

pork pie Cornish pasty

Phrases with the word

pasty-faced pasty end

Derivatives

pasties pastier pastiest

Anagrams

patsy Ptyas

Examples

She is pasty and podgy, with the eyes of a currant bun, suddenly protruding with animation. Elizabeth Bibesco

He was a young driver, just out on his second job. And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits for everyone in that coal-scarred city where children play without despair in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day about thirty thousand pounds of bananas... Harry Chapin

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice. Elizabeth Mitchell

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self. Olivia Thirlby

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy. James McAvoy

The guests will go away, and we will eat the pasty. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pasturing pastward pastwards pasty end pasty tax pasty-faced