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Meaning of troughy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).

Examples

“Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; […]”

“[…] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

trousered trouserian trouserless trouserlike trousersed trousersless