Meaty

//ˈmiːti// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or containing meat.

    "In the early years of this century most Americans did not question the meaty, starchy, saladless national diet."

  2. 2
    Resembling meat in flavour, smell, etc.

    "This tastes rather meaty. Are you sure it's vegetarian?"

  3. 3
    Of a person or a body part, large and solid.

    "The whole, long, thick, meaty shaft of it quivered as if eager to dispel my mouth. Odor assailed me, too – my brother, like so many soldiers, not being overly fastidious in matters of personal hygiene. "All right, my little whoreling," he commanded, [...]"

  4. 4
    Substantial.

    "I got a nice, meaty bonus."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being on topic and prompting thought wordnet
  2. 2
    like or containing meat wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
fleshysubstantialadiposeallegoricalassociationalbeefy

Example

More examples

"On the 10th of March of 2022, I ate two pizza slices and drank iced tea at the Lulu Island pizzeria in the morning. The big screen showed Seattle news, but the sound was off, as usual. In the afternoon, I returned to the pizzeria to have a slice and an iced diet black cola. It was Seattle news, again, on the big screen, with sound off. Somewhat audible East Indian music was playing behind the counter. A boisterous corpulent East Indian man with his boy with a rocket-ship T-shirt ordered pizza. I walked to the cafe. At the cafe, I drank iced black tea. Behind the counter was Sebastian, the Mayan-Austrian hybrid. A big mesomorphic boy customer with something like a samurai hairdo entered. I had seen him before with his impressive meaty thighs, as he liked wearing shorts. Heading home, I observed through the window the new interesting products in the new Japanesque bakery with a bubble-tea vendor. I saw an elegant long bun with the price tag "$95"—or "$9.50"? Near the gasoline station, I saw the round-headed corpulent, but muscular man, who lived in a nearby apartment. I had seen him many times before, over the years, often with his little boy. He decried the ill sentiment in society: "They think sex is just poverty." In the alleyway, my Russian neighbour hastily passed by, whispering, "Everybody's just crying.""

Etymology

From meat + -y.

More for "meaty"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.