starchyadjective
uk/ˈstɑː.tʃi/us/ˈstɑːr.tʃi/starchy adjective (FORMAL)
informal disapproving behaving in a formal way and without humour:
Museums are trying to shake off their starchy image.
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Lacking humour
- be no laughing matter idiom
- beyond
- beyond a joke idiom
- earnest
- humourless
- laugh
- lightly
- mirthless
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- rofl
- serious
- seriously
- sober
- solemn
- solemnity
- starchily
- take a joke idiom
- turgid
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starchy adjective (FOOD)
containing a lot of starch:
starchy foods
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Various qualities of food
- citrus
- cordon bleu
- creamy
- crisp
- crispy
- crunchy
- fatty
- hoppy
- instant
- isotonic
- kosher
- lean
- mild
- salt
- store-bought
- sugar-coated
- sugar-free
- unbleached
- undercook
- unsliced
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