plasticky

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adjective

Resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and lightweight.

OriginEnglish plastic ← Latin plasticus ← Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós) →
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Meanings

adjectiveplasticky (comparative more plasticky, superlative most plasticky)

comparative more plasticky · superlative most plasticky

  1. Resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and lightweight.

    She had awoken two hours later in the cabbagey-plasticky fug of her tent feeling deadly certain that she had failed somehow, that he had been expecting something to happen between them, and now it wouldn't happen—or couldn't happen—because she was no longer on her own.

    2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 201

Origin

  1. Proto-Hellenic*plátʰyō
  2. Proto-Hellenic*plát͏̌t͏̌ō?
  3. Ancient Greekπλάσσω (plássō)
  4. Ancient Greekπλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)
  5. Latinplasticus
  6. Englishplastic
  7. Englishplasticky

From plastic + -y.

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APA

plasticky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plasticky

MLA

“plasticky.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plasticky. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plasticky,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plasticky.

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