starchy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: starch=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

starchy, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to starch.  [PJC]
•  Containing or consisting of starch; -- used especially of foods.  [PJC]
•  Resembling starch; stiff.  [1913 Webster]
•  Stiffened by use of starch; starched{1}; -- of clothing.  [PJC]
•  Formal in manner; precise.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

starchy, adj. (starchier, starchiest)
1 a of or like starch. b containing much starch.
2 (of a person) precise, prim.

Derivative

starchily adv. starchiness n.

THESAURUS

starchy

adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, mucilaginous, pasty, pokerlike, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starched, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, thickened, tight, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unrelaxed, virgate, viscid, viscose, viscous