Words similar to groovy
Example sentences for: groovy
How can you use “groovy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To compete against the young millionaires, we enrolled in a house-buying class where almost everyone looked like us--25 to 35 years old, white, groovy enough.
And groove could simply mean a "style," a sense associated with the parallel between being in a groove and being in a rut . (In the 19 th century, groovy actually meant "to be in a rut" or to be "of settled habits" or "conventional"; the first Oxford English Dictionary citation for this kind of grooviness is dated 1867.)
Jazz musicians also experimented with several mood-altering substances, and this also plays into a sense of "feeling groovy."
"Often," he says, drawing on Merriam-Webster's voluminous citation files, "groovy is used in reference to something from, or reminiscent of, the 1960s (clothing, spiritualism, things that glow in black light), but just as often (actually, more often) the word appears to be used in reference to the contemporary scene.
Guaranteed groovy.
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