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/ˈbiːt͡ʃi/ · adjective
Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand..
O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!
2004 Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. — USDA site
Use beachy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Beachy means Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand..
Common synonyms include gravelly, shingly, pebbly, beachlike.
Possible antonyms include cliffy, clifflike.
O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!
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