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Massiest vs Mossiest - What's the difference?

massiest | mossiest |

As adjectives the difference between massiest and mossiest

is that massiest is (massy) while mossiest is (mossy).

massiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (massy)

    • Anagrams

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    massy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Heavy; massive.
  • * 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
    • Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, / Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks / Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist;
  • * 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic
    • When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro
  • * 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics , volume 1, ISBN 0-7803-7922-5, abstract, pages 70-73
    • We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
    • "But Lors ha' massy , how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...

    • Anagrams

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    mossiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mossy)

    • mossy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered in or overgrown with moss.

    • Derived terms

    * mossy cell * mossy fiber, mossy fibre * mossy foot * mossy New Caledonian gecko * mossy saxifrage * mossiness * mossy-back, mossy-backed * * mossy-cup oak * mossy horn * mossy stonecrop * mossy zinc