massy

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Recent Examples of massy While the attempts to create massy cinema land fine for most parts, Dhawan does not quite emerge as the larger-than-life south-Indian hero set to rule the audience merely with his presence. Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024 All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction. Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massy
Adjective
  • Python prints, delicate lace, raw denim and voluminous shapes brought texture and contrast.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Equally headline-worthy was Chappell Roan, who brought a sense of theatricality to the mix—especially at Valentino, where the singer donned a voluminous lace and floral gown.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This upgrade eliminates the need for bulky recording hardware and minimizes disruptions caused by technical failures, a press release asserted.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Equipped with bulky bodies, these dinosaurs also boasted long legs, short arms, and small heads with beaks.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For a movie whose chief anthem is an advertisement for the joys of defying gravity, Wicked is surprisingly leaden, with a promise of more of the same to come.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Sources of support Back at the Denny’s parking lot, the sky had turned leaden gray, and Mckenzie bummed a cigarette from her best friend, Christina Bojorquez.
    Gale Holland, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2022
Adjective
  • But despite the outsize interest in Williams and Wilmore’s mission, a number of astronauts have had their stays in space extended without warning.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Knowing how to create the perfect sleep environment will have an outsize effect on your general wellbeing as well.
    Miranda Silva, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The elephantine dance is constant: Each load is dumped, pushed, and dropped into a pit immense enough to hold 15,000 tons of waste (more than the city’s entire daily output).
    Curbed, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Any attempt to resurrect the mammoth faces an elephantine gauntlet of challenges, including the DNA-shattering effects of frost and time, and the rather unhelpful reproductive tract of the eventual surrogate parent—the elephant.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2012
Adjective
  • Congress Acts to Eliminate Needless Delays In a rare sign of legislative progress in this area, Congress did take action over the past two weeks to reverse unnecessarily duplicative and burdensome regulations implemented during the Biden administration.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The data provides some hope for South Koreans concerned about the complete disintegration of their society due to a rapidly aging population that is growing more burdensome for each shrinking generation of youth, but South Korea is far from out of the woods.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
  • Their bodies range from eely, jawless lampreys to flattened flounders to huge, lumpish ocean sunfish.
    Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018

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“Massy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massy. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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