Antonyms for leafy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : lee-fee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈli fi |
Definition of leafy
Origin :- 1550s, from leaf (n.) + -y (2). Related: Leafily; leafiness.
- adj abundant in foliage
- How far above me seemed that leafy cloudland into which I gazed!
- Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
- Into it he dropped the ring, covering it again with all the leafy "rubble and wreck" of the wood.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Other little paths led from the clearing into leafy recesses.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- She would—she must—know what he was saying to his companion in that leafy bower.
- Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey
- Too great vigor is indicated by long, leafy, unbranching shoots.
- Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
- In that leafy tunnel, as far as the eye could see, was no one living or dead.
- Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
- The sun was just rising through the leafy tops of those trees.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- One of the latter struck a tree above his head and severed a leafy twig.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- The time was the leafy month of June, and the first part of the journey was pleasant.
- Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
- He found her in a leafy corner of the garden talking to some friends.
- Extract from : « Novel Notes » by Jerome K. Jerome
Synonyms for leafy
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