massy

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Recent Examples of massy While the attempts to create massy cinema land fine for most parts, Dhawan does not quite emerge as the larger-than-life south-Indian hero set to rule the audience merely with his presence. Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024 All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction. Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massy
Adjective
  • Looks span one-shoulder and off-the-shoulder gowns to corseted tops paired with voluminous wide-leg trousers that drape like skirts.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The dress featured a voluminous skirt, severe shoulders and lace-up detailing on the bodice.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • On multiple occasions, in fact, Hailey would step out in an elegant mini and pumps, and her husband would be wearing raggedy jeans and a bulky hoodie.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This not only saves space by eliminating the need to store bulky boxes but is also helpful for puzzles with damaged containers.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For a movie whose chief anthem is an advertisement for the joys of defying gravity, Wicked is surprisingly leaden, with a promise of more of the same to come.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Sources of support Back at the Denny’s parking lot, the sky had turned leaden gray, and Mckenzie bummed a cigarette from her best friend, Christina Bojorquez.
    Gale Holland, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2022
Adjective
  • From the moment his sketch of a laughing lumberjack was featured in the Spring 1957 issue of Physique Pictorial, his drawings cast an outsize, phallic shadow on all other erotica; his influence burst past the gay community, spilling into the mainstream and culminating in a 2017 biopic.
    Chris Erik Thomas, Them, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Displaced to homes and schools not set up for their needs and with no guarantee of solutions on the horizon, outsize obstacles still lie ahead.
    Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The elephantine dance is constant: Each load is dumped, pushed, and dropped into a pit immense enough to hold 15,000 tons of waste (more than the city’s entire daily output).
    Curbed, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Any attempt to resurrect the mammoth faces an elephantine gauntlet of challenges, including the DNA-shattering effects of frost and time, and the rather unhelpful reproductive tract of the eventual surrogate parent—the elephant.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2012
Adjective
  • If keeping a shrub small enough requires a burdensome amount of pruning, consider removing it and replacing it with a species or variety that is naturally compact enough for the space.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Late Thursday, the SEC rescinded SAB 121, potentially opening the door for banks to custody crypto assets without such burdensome capital requirements.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
  • Their bodies range from eely, jawless lampreys to flattened flounders to huge, lumpish ocean sunfish.
    Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018

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“Massy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massy. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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