curliest
- 1Superlative of curly.
Of all the ribbons on the gift, the gold one ended up the curliest.
The barber said hers was the curliest head of hair he had worked on in years.
Note
The regular superlative of a two-syllable adjective in -y: the y turns to i before the ending, giving curlier and curliest, as happy gives happiest. The superlative carries every sense of curly, not only hair and ribbons. In Australian use, where curly can mean complicated or knotty, the curliest problem is the hardest one to untangle. Most curly is possible, but the one-word form is the usual choice.
curliest is a form of curly
curly, adjective: Having curls; forming a coiled or wavy shape rather than lying straight. Full entry
- Spelling
- curly → curliest: change y to i, add -est
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