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What is the difference between leavened and yeasty?

leavened | yeasty |

As adjectives the difference between leavened and yeasty

is that leavened is prepared using leavening while yeasty is having or resembling yeast.

As a verb leavened

is past tense of leaven.

leavened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (leaven)
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • Prepared using leavening
  • Antonyms

    * unleavened

    yeasty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having or resembling yeast.
  • Foamy and frothy.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.58:
  • The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...].
  • Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  • Trivial.
  • Quotations

    ; trivial * 1602 : , act V scene 2 *: Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I *: now the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the *: time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of *: yeasty collection, which carries them through and *: through the most profane and winnowed opinions

    See also

    * fermenting * leavened * yeast