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Definition of starchy in English: starchyadjectivestarchier, starchiest ˈstɑːtʃiˈstɑrtʃi 1(of food or diet) containing a lot of starch. （食物，食谱）含淀粉多的 the school's starchy diet Example sentencesExamples - The standards suggest meals contain at least one portion of the following: fruit and vegetables, milk or other dairy item, meat or fish, starchy food such as bread, pasta or rice.
- Avoid fatty and fried foods and stick to starchy foods like rice, potatoes and pasta.
- The modern innovations of the food industry such as starchy grains, which upset our digestive systems and cause us to put on weight, are much more affordable and much more popular.
- Carbohydrate foods such as bread, pasta, rice and starchy vegetables release glucose and stimulate the production of insulin.
- Many women are afraid that if they consume grains and starchy foods, they will gain weight.
- However, beware of adding more starchy foods to your diet just because they are ‘low carb.’
- Your baby's diet should now include plenty of starchy foods and a wide range of fruit and vegetables.
- These standards mean starchy foods such as bread, potatoes, rice and pasta must not be cooked in oil or fat more than three times a week.
- So include starchy foods like fruit, whole-wheat pasta, potatoes, oatmeal and brown rice in your sleep pantry.
- The sleep-deprived people overwhelmingly asked for candy, starchy foods, and salty snacks such as potato chips.
- Breads, grains, pastas, processed foods, and starchy foods like potatoes should be minimized.
- So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods (bread, rice and potatoes), sugar and other sweet foods.
- In the tropics, you can still find other, less desirable banana varieties, mainly grown as a starchy food staple rather than a sweet treat.
- This love for raw food has extended well beyond just fruits and vegetables to include meats and starchy foods.
- Carbohydrates are generally found in starchy foods such as rice, pasta, potatoes, breads, etc.
- The Shambaa diet is composed of starchy foods such as rice, maize, and sweet potatoes.
- The low-carb Atkins Diet has become so popular in Britain that producers of starchy food are worried.
- The Sherpa diet is dominated by starchy foods, supplemented by vegetables, spices, and occasionally meat.
- And what about nutritious foods such as whole grains and fruits, or starchy vegetables such as sweet potatoes and winter squash - how do they fit into a carb-conscious eating plan?
- Infection rates could be further reduced by feeding hay, rather than the standard unhealthy starchy grain diet, for seven days prior to slaughter.
Synonyms substantial, hearty, ample, abundant, solid, nutritious, nourishing, satisfying, square 2(of clothing) stiff with starch. （衣服）上浆而硬挺的 my apron was too clean and my cap too starchy Example sentencesExamples - He was dressed in a very starchy white shirt that seemed two sizes too big and very ugly pants that seemed to be made of burlap.
- Dresses also feature in the show, from starchy Victorian frocks to stylish evening numbers, reflecting the changing fashions of the early 20th century.
- The typical Utah outfit consists of a starchy white shirt, a pair of pleated khaki pants that hit the leg just above the ankle, a brown belt and brown shoes.
3informal Very stiff, formal, or prim in manner or character. 〈非正式〉（风格、性格上）古板的，刻板的，拘谨的 the manager is usually a bit starchy 经理通常有点古板。 Example sentencesExamples - Capt Osborne, head of military police at Fort Clayton, is put in charge of the case, but she's too uptight and starchy to make a mouse squeal.
- It's something to do with their unforgiving outlook on the world; although, sure, they might like to cut loose once in a while, they're starchy collared conservatives at heart.
- Devis's group portraits were of a stiff, starchy sort.
- It's a bit starchy and formal.
- I was intrigued to read in your autobiography that your relationship with your parents was starchy and formal, while you were close to your grandmother.
- It's quite a contrast from the stiff upper lip, starchy world of wool huntcoats that I've grown up with.
- Contestants chat in nervous bursts about other quizzes, the way the show works and its starchy dress code.
- British cinema is often seen as a staid and starchy affair, as lacking in feeling as it was in aesthetic passion.
- Kerry may be highly intelligent, but he is starchy, stiff and emotionally not as skilled.
- A dramatization of the life of Soviet artist Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Constructivist Suit is an intriguing if starchy work from writer/director Robert Di Giovanni.
- She was just way, way too prim and starchy for me.
- This whole mess is presided over by Anne Robinson, a prim, starchy, offensive Englishwoman who asks the questions while berating the contestants with wooden taunts and denigrating comments.
Synonyms sedate, respectable, quiet, serious, serious-minded, steady, conventional, traditional, unadventurous, unenterprising, set in one's ways staid, sedate, sober, stiff, reserved, impersonal, formal, pompous, prim, priggish, fogeyish, strait-laced, conformist, conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, of the old school
Derivativesadverbˈstɑːtʃɪliˈstɑrtʃəli The inspector starchily assures him that his comments will be passed on. Example sentencesExamples - Still, the way the insolent and foul-mouthed Tora and the starchily patronizing Selma go from hostility to sisterhood is not without interest.
- And there's at least one goofy-great moment, as Sagnier coaxes Rampling to starchily bop around to a thumping techno song with the refrain of ‘Let's do it!’
- In May, the FISA court starchily rejected the Justice Department's proposed new guidelines.
- The dullest piece here is a starchily respectful profile of Krishna Menon, the high commissioner in London for the Dominion of India.
nounˈstɑːtʃɪnəsˈstɑrtʃinəs Tossed in a hot pan for a scant five minutes, the sprouts soften and give up their starchiness, wilting into a warm slaw scented with white wine and citrus. Example sentencesExamples - Once cooked, the flesh is almost fluffy, like a sweet potato - but without so much starchiness.
- I feel happy until they start to remake the bed with shiny new sheets that glisten in bleached starchiness.
- They should be mildly sweet and tender without any starchiness.
- The starchiness which characterized the East Coast elite in the 1950s has gone, he says.
Rhymeshibachi, Karachi, Liberace, vivace Definition of starchy in US English: starchyadjectiveˈstɑrtʃiˈstärCHē 1(of food or diet) containing a relatively high amount of starch. （食物，食谱）含淀粉多的 Example sentencesExamples - The low-carb Atkins Diet has become so popular in Britain that producers of starchy food are worried.
- Carbohydrate foods such as bread, pasta, rice and starchy vegetables release glucose and stimulate the production of insulin.
- The modern innovations of the food industry such as starchy grains, which upset our digestive systems and cause us to put on weight, are much more affordable and much more popular.
- So it is crucial to monitor your intake of glucose from starchy foods (bread, rice and potatoes), sugar and other sweet foods.
- In the tropics, you can still find other, less desirable banana varieties, mainly grown as a starchy food staple rather than a sweet treat.
- Avoid fatty and fried foods and stick to starchy foods like rice, potatoes and pasta.
- Your baby's diet should now include plenty of starchy foods and a wide range of fruit and vegetables.
- However, beware of adding more starchy foods to your diet just because they are ‘low carb.’
- The sleep-deprived people overwhelmingly asked for candy, starchy foods, and salty snacks such as potato chips.
- Many women are afraid that if they consume grains and starchy foods, they will gain weight.
- These standards mean starchy foods such as bread, potatoes, rice and pasta must not be cooked in oil or fat more than three times a week.
- So include starchy foods like fruit, whole-wheat pasta, potatoes, oatmeal and brown rice in your sleep pantry.
- Infection rates could be further reduced by feeding hay, rather than the standard unhealthy starchy grain diet, for seven days prior to slaughter.
- The Shambaa diet is composed of starchy foods such as rice, maize, and sweet potatoes.
- This love for raw food has extended well beyond just fruits and vegetables to include meats and starchy foods.
- The standards suggest meals contain at least one portion of the following: fruit and vegetables, milk or other dairy item, meat or fish, starchy food such as bread, pasta or rice.
- Carbohydrates are generally found in starchy foods such as rice, pasta, potatoes, breads, etc.
- Breads, grains, pastas, processed foods, and starchy foods like potatoes should be minimized.
- The Sherpa diet is dominated by starchy foods, supplemented by vegetables, spices, and occasionally meat.
- And what about nutritious foods such as whole grains and fruits, or starchy vegetables such as sweet potatoes and winter squash - how do they fit into a carb-conscious eating plan?
Synonyms substantial, hearty, ample, abundant, solid, nutritious, nourishing, satisfying, square 2(of clothing) stiff with starch. （衣服）上浆而硬挺的 Example sentencesExamples - Dresses also feature in the show, from starchy Victorian frocks to stylish evening numbers, reflecting the changing fashions of the early 20th century.
- He was dressed in a very starchy white shirt that seemed two sizes too big and very ugly pants that seemed to be made of burlap.
- The typical Utah outfit consists of a starchy white shirt, a pair of pleated khaki pants that hit the leg just above the ankle, a brown belt and brown shoes.
3informal Very stiff, formal, or prim in manner or character. 〈非正式〉（风格、性格上）古板的，刻板的，拘谨的 the manager is usually a bit starchy 经理通常有点古板。 Example sentencesExamples - British cinema is often seen as a staid and starchy affair, as lacking in feeling as it was in aesthetic passion.
- I was intrigued to read in your autobiography that your relationship with your parents was starchy and formal, while you were close to your grandmother.
- This whole mess is presided over by Anne Robinson, a prim, starchy, offensive Englishwoman who asks the questions while berating the contestants with wooden taunts and denigrating comments.
- Capt Osborne, head of military police at Fort Clayton, is put in charge of the case, but she's too uptight and starchy to make a mouse squeal.
- It's something to do with their unforgiving outlook on the world; although, sure, they might like to cut loose once in a while, they're starchy collared conservatives at heart.
- She was just way, way too prim and starchy for me.
- Kerry may be highly intelligent, but he is starchy, stiff and emotionally not as skilled.
- It's quite a contrast from the stiff upper lip, starchy world of wool huntcoats that I've grown up with.
- A dramatization of the life of Soviet artist Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Constructivist Suit is an intriguing if starchy work from writer/director Robert Di Giovanni.
- Devis's group portraits were of a stiff, starchy sort.
- Contestants chat in nervous bursts about other quizzes, the way the show works and its starchy dress code.
- It's a bit starchy and formal.
Synonyms sedate, respectable, quiet, serious, serious-minded, steady, conventional, traditional, unadventurous, unenterprising, set in one's ways staid, sedate, sober, stiff, reserved, impersonal, formal, pompous, prim, priggish, fogeyish, strait-laced, conformist, conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, of the old school
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