palmy

[pah-mee]

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adjective, palm·i·er, palm·i·est.

glorious, prosperous, or flourishing: the palmy days of yesteryear.

abounding in or shaded with palms: palmy islands.

palmlike.

Origin of palmy

First recorded in 1595–1605; palm² + -y¹

Synonyms for palmy

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1. bounteous, booming, halcyon, rosy.

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Related Words for palmy

booming, comfortable, well-to-do, well-heeled, well-off, affluent, rich, wealthy, robust, fortunate, flourishing, golden, good, breezy, rosy, excellent, airy, bucolic, still, pastoral

Examples from the Web for palmy

Historical Examples of palmy

Surely she never should have been Semiramis, even in her palmy day!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845
Various
Such were the miseries of navigation in the palmy days of English adventure by sea.
Raleigh
Edmund Gosse
"The palmy days of the drama, I suppose," interjected Handy.
A Pirate of Parts
Richard Neville
It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
You should have heard the Sisters Belton in their palmy days at the Pav!
Stingaree
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

British Dictionary definitions for palmy

palmy

adjective palmier or palmiest

prosperous, flourishing, or luxuriousa palmy life

covered with, relating to, or resembling palmsa palmy beach

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Word Origin and History for palmy

adj.

"triumphant," c.1600, from palm (n.2) in the "triumph" sense + -y (2). Literal meaning "full of palms" attested from 1660s.