Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to meat.
  • adjective Having the flavor or smell of meat.
  • adjective Full of or containing meat.
  • adjective Heavily fleshed.
  • adjective Prompting considerable thought.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A bounding in meat; fleshy: as, meaty cattle.
  • Resembling meat, or characteristic of it: as, a meaty flavor.
  • Figuratively, pithy; full of meaning or significance; condensed, as a treatise giving much information in small compass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Abounding in meat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or containing meat.
  • adjective Resembling meat in flavour, etc.
  • adjective Of a person or a body part, large and solid.
  • adjective Substantial.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective being on topic and prompting thought
  • adjective like or containing meat

Etymologies

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meat +‎ -y

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