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rangy

[ reyn-jee ]

adjective

rangier, rangiest.
  1. (of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
  2. given to or fitted for ranging or moving about, as animals.


rangy

/ ˈ°ù±ðɪ²Ô»åÏôɪ /

adjective

  1. (of animals or people) having long slender limbs
  2. adapted to wandering or roaming
  3. allowing considerable freedom of movement; spacious; roomy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ°ù²¹²Ô²µ¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
  • ˈ°ù²¹²Ô²µ¾±±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • °ù²¹²Ô²µî€ƒi·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rangy1

First recorded in 1865–70; range + -y 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rangy1

C19: from range + -y 1
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Schmidt expected that he might need to alter his sometimes complex, rangy melodies for these untrained singers, and he encouraged them all to find the right voice for their character.

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“It was morning, so we wanted everything bright and breezy,†she says of her decision to display the blooms’ rangy naked stems at varying heights.

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Had it not been for a fluky step two nights before in Boston, Jarred Vanderbilt would’ve been the Laker tasked with stopping Brunson, the team’s rangy long-armed forward usually drawing the toughest defensive assignments.

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But that absence forced a concentrated listening, or at least forbade a distracted one, which proved useful during some of the night’s rangier moments.

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Driver is tall and rangy, but he looks even bigger here — wider, too — partly because Enzo wears boxy suits with linebacker shoulders so broad they nearly scrape the edges of the frame.

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