Meanings
comparative more ribbony · superlative most ribbony
- Like ribbon.
Jean-Luc Godard’s radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse “Contempt,” 45 this year, is being revived again, in startling color and elegant, ribbony CinemaScope, for the second time in just over a decade, and it’s beginning to look like one of those movies we can’t do without for very long: a classic.
2008 March 9, Terrence Rafferty, “Man, Godard and Nature (and Bardot, Too)”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelong and thin; resembling a ribbon
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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ribbony. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ribbony
“ribbony.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ribbony. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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