massy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of massy
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at mass, -y 1
Example Sentences
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Indeed, Stonehenge’s massy blocks seem irresistible to copyists: a website, Clonehenge, charts replicas made of everything from cars and lava-lamps to vegetables and gingerbread.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019
Those macroscopic rules, he said, stemmed from the systematic combination of microscopic bodies: solid, massy and hard, as Isaac Newton had put it in a phrase Dalton was fond of quoting.
From Nature • Aug. 30, 2016
Last week wrathful Teller Beckett, like a man beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House!
From Time Magazine Archive
Now he lets the paint, flat, matte and massy, do the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Mademoiselle,” said one, in the dry and oft-repeated jest, “to see you depart from our circle is to see the sun cast oil' its planets and roam. What shall we, massy bodies, do, left bereft?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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