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What is the adjective for starchily?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb starch which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

starchy
  1. Of or pertaining to starch.
  2. Containing starch.
  3. Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
  4. Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. formal, stiff, prim, sober, ceremonious, fogeyish, pompous, priggish, punctilious, conservative, conventional, correct, decorous, proper, staid, stilted, stodgy, strait-laced, austere, mannered, nice, prudish, reserved, rigid, sedate, solemn, square, starched, strict, straight, uptight, fuddy-duddy, old-fashioned, stiff-necked, of the old school, stick-in-the-mud, stuffy, dignified, puritanical, prissy, Victorian, stately, courtly, schoolmarmish, seemly, genteel, schoolmistressy, Grundyish, old-maidish, goody-goody … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The hotel's director was not looking to imitate a starchy, pretentious European-style hotel, but rather a classic American hotel with all the amenities.”
      “In many countries, it is cultivated for its starchy tubers, sometimes called air potatoes or Chinese yams.”
      “And while yams are dry and starchy and can make a good chip, they contain little to no beta-carotene or vitamin A, and so are less nutritious.”
starched
  1. Of a garment: having had starch applied.
  2. Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. formal, conventional, prim, stiff, exact, precise, staid, correct, proper, stuffy, unbending, aloof, inflexible, reserved, unsympathetic, affected, detached, haughty, remote, starchy, stilted, unfriendly, antisocial, austere, forbidding, official, restrained, reticent, seemly, serious, taciturn, unapproachable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, unforthcoming, unresponsive, unsocial, withdrawn, polite, strait-laced, stiff-necked, straight arrow, by the numbers, stand-offish, keeping people at arm's length, sober, priggish, fogeyish, punctilious, ceremonious … more
starch
  1. Stiff; precise; rigid.
starchlike
  1. Resembling starch.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. starchy, gritty, farinaceous, mealy, crumbly, powdery, grainy, friable
starchless
  1. Without starch.
starchier
  1. comparative form of starchy: more starchy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stiffer, primmer, soberer, staider, stodgier, austerer, nicer, rigider, squarer, stricter, straighter, uptighter, more formal, more ceremonious, more fogeyish, more pompous, more priggish, more punctilious, more conservative, more conventional, more correct, more decorous, more proper, more stilted, more strait-laced, more mannered, more prudish, more reserved, more sedate, more solemn, more starched, more old-fashioned, more stiff-necked, stuffier, more dignified, more puritanical, prissier, more Victorian, statelier, more schoolmarmish, courtlier, seemlier, more genteel, more schoolmistressy, more old-maidish, more respectable, more moralistic, more niminy-piminy, more prim and proper, more distinguished … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Tomatoes ripened in this way tend to keep longer, but have poorer flavor and a mealier, starchier texture than tomatoes ripened on the plant.”
      “I tried to explain that while plantains are related to the sweet bananas she loves, they are much starchier, less sweet and unpleasant to eat raw.”
starchiest
  1. superlative form of starchy: most starchy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stiffest, primmest, soberest, staidest, stodgiest, austerest, nicest, rigidest, squarest, strictest, straightest, uptightest, most formal, most ceremonious, most fogeyish, most pompous, most priggish, most punctilious, most conservative, most conventional, most correct, most decorous, most proper, most stilted, most strait-laced, most mannered, most prudish, most reserved, most sedate, most solemn, most starched, most old-fashioned, most stiff-necked, stuffiest, most dignified, most puritanical, prissiest, most Victorian, stateliest, most schoolmarmish, courtliest, seemliest, most genteel, most schoolmistressy, most old-maidish, most respectable, most moralistic, most niminy-piminy, most prim and proper, most distinguished … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.”
      “Along for the ride come yummy fried plantains, black beans over yellow rice and, for those who like the starchiest starch on the planet, yucca.”
starching
  1. present participle of starch
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stiffening, hardening, congealing, setting, solidifying, coagulating, clotting, thickening, gelling, freezing, caking, jelling, curdling, jellying, condensing, petrifying, crystallising, crystallizing, ossifying, annealing, inspissating, cementing, firming, fixing, harshening, precipitating, chilling, chillin, candying, becoming solid, becoming stiff, indurating, baking, concreting, strengthening, fossilizing, toughening, densifying, fortifying, steeling, calcifying, settling, amalgamating, fossilising, firming up, drying up, brazing, drying, tempering, toughening up … more
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