sweepy
English
Etymology
sweep + -y
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːpi
Adjective
sweepy (comparative more sweepy, superlative most sweepy)
- Moving with a sweeping motion, or having a curving shape that suggests it.
- Dryden
- The branches bend before their sweepy sway.
- Dryden
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sweepy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)