Woodsy

//ˈwʊdzi// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.

    "Harry, Tina, Esther, and I ran up and down and in and about the piles of wood that evening with a joyous satisfaction. How fresh and spicy and woodsy it smelt!"

  2. 2
    Of a place: having many trees.

    ""The first thing he said was he was 'fraid she'd got into the woods. You know they always find um in the woods in the papers. They git confused 'n' they wander round." / "Yes," said Mr. Townshend, "that's about it, you see. I thought right away of Noah's Island; it's the woodsiest place there is about. I sh'll git some men together right away.[…]""

Adjective
  1. 1
    abounding in trees wordnet
  2. 2
    characteristic or suggestive of woods wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
woodedsylvanwoodyafforestationalarboraceousarboraceous

Example

More examples

"The shore road was woodsy and wild and lonesome."

Etymology

From woods + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives), to distinguish the word from woody (“made of wood, or having wood-like properties, etc.”).

More for "woodsy"

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.