earthy
/ˈɝθi/ adjective C1- Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth). · The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
- Composed, or largely composed, of soil.
- Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural. · She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
- Coarse and unrefined, crude. · earthy humour
- Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
- Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
Comparative earthier · Superlative earthiest
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