doughy

doughy

adj \ˈdō-ē\

dough·i·erdough·i·est

Definition of DOUGHY

: resembling dough: as a : not thoroughly baked <doughy bread> b : unhealthily pale : pasty <a doughy face>

Examples of DOUGHY

1. High humidity can make your loaves turn out doughy.
2. <she worried that her husband was very ill when she saw his doughy complexion>

First Known Use of DOUGHY

1601

Related to DOUGHY

Synonyms: ashen, ashy, blanched, cadaverous, pale, livid, lurid, mealy, paled, pallid, pasty, peaked, wan

Antonyms: blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine

Related Words: sallow, sallowish, sick, sickly, waxen, waxy; white, whitened; anemic, bloodless; untanned; whey-faced, white-faced

Near Antonyms: blushing, flushed, pink

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Rhymes with DOUGHY

blowy, Chloe, joey, showy, snowy