mathy

English

Alternative forms
  • math-y

Etymology

From math +‎ -y.

Adjective

mathy (comparative more mathy or mathier, superlative most mathy or mathiest)

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).
    • 2009, Bob Dancer, Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner, page 7:
      I showed a draft of this book to one of my nieces and she declared it “too mathy.”
    • 2019 May 17, Siobhan Roberts, “‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab”, in The New York Times‎:
      She first combined her math-y and woolly mind-sets as a Ph.D. student, after admiring a friend’s crocheted interpretation of the hyperbolic plane (curly kale is a vegetable example) and wondering how to do it differently.
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