Plasticky
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and lightweight.
"She had awoken two hours later in the cabbagey-plasticky fug of her tent feeling deadly certain that she had failed somehow, that he had been expecting something to happen between them, and now it wouldn't happen—or couldn't happen—because she was no longer on her own."
Example
More examples"Mandarin sounds like it has better fluidity than English, which sounds more plasticky."
Etymology
From plastic + -y.
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