Earthy vs Terreous - What's the difference?
earthy | terreous |
Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(obsolete) Pertaining to earth, earthy.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , Folio 2007, p. 333:
As adjectives the difference between earthy and terreous
is that earthy is resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth) while terreous is pertaining to earth, earthy.earthy
English
Adjective
(er)- The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
- She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
- He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
Anagrams
*terreous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- For when the airy intersticies are filled [...] there remains a gross and terreous portion at the bottom