Meanings
comparative yeastier · superlative yeastiest
- Having or resembling yeast.
- Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
- Trivial.
Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most profane and winnowed opinions
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or resembling or containing yeast
adjectiveexuberantly creative
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian пенлив, пенест
- пенлив (penliv)foamy and frothy
- пенест (penest)foamy and frothy
- кипящ (kipjašt)emotionally bubbling over
Finnish hiivainen
- hiivainenhaving or resembling yeast
Irish giosta
- giostahaving or resembling yeast
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with yeasty
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