Meaty

/ˈmiːti/ · adjective

Meaning

Of, relating to, or containing meat..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, relating to, or containing meat.
2. Resembling meat in flavour, smell, etc.
3. Of a person or a body part, large and solid.
4. Substantial.

Example Sentences

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

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

"He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."

The warm, comforting, meaty smell of khorovadz drifted into the café from a stall on the pavement; the quiet mutters that had till then passed for conversation in the café began to buzz with passion and interest.

The slightly sulfurous, meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom's hollow stalk.

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, [...]

There’s nothing worse than having cashed out the college fund so that Mom and Dad and Buddy and Sis can afford airfare to Wally World, only to find out that they are additionally facing bag fees and snack fees, and soon enough, there will likely be a fee to have the 350-pound man sausaged next to Sis in the middle seat keep his meaty elbows out of her ribcage.

When he tried to extract the liver, which should have been firm and meaty, it deliquesced into a bloody sludge, sliding goopily through his fingers.

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• meatier
• meatiest

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