PULPY
What does "PULPY" mean?
Soft, moist, and shapeless, like the inside of a ripe fruit.
Meanings
- Having the soft, wet, fleshy consistency of fruit pulp. The overripe peach had gone soft and pulpy.
- Of fiction or magazines: sensational, cheaply produced, and lurid. He spent the summer devouring pulpy detective paperbacks. informal
Did you know?
- Calling lurid fiction 'pulpy' is literal: those magazines were printed on cheap wood-pulp paper, which is how 'pulp fiction' got its name.
Word origin
From 'pulp' (from Latin 'pulpa', meaning 'flesh of fruit, fleshy part') plus the adjective suffix '-y'.
Remember it
PULPY = PULP + Y: squeeze an orange and the leftover squish is exactly what the word means.
A little poem
Too ripe in the bowl-
the peach forgets to hold shape,
all sweetness, no spine.
haiku
Wordplay
- The orange juice and the cheap novel both got called pulpy - one for the fruit, one for the paper.
What it teaches
Ripeness and ruin share a texture; timing is the only thing that tells them apart.
Quick facts
What does PULPY mean?
Soft, moist, and shapeless, like the inside of a ripe fruit.
Is PULPY a valid word?
Yes — PULPY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PULPY?
PULPY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PULPY come from?
From 'pulp' (from Latin 'pulpa', meaning 'flesh of fruit, fleshy part') plus the adjective suffix '-y'.
What can PULPY teach us?
Ripeness and ruin share a texture; timing is the only thing that tells them apart.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.