starchy

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

stiff formal starchlike buckram amyloid amyloidal amylaceous stuck-up amyl stromatic

Often followed by

foods food vegetables and endosperm roots root matter staples

Word family

starchier starchiest starchily starchiness starchinesses