sandy
adj.adj. covered with sand or containing a lot of sand. You use this to describe places like beaches or things that feel gritty like a floor after a day at the coast.
adj. covered with, containing, or resembling sand. Typically used to describe geographical features or textures.
The children played on the sandy beach all afternoon.
After the long hike through the dunes, I had to shake out my sandy boots before entering the house.
The geologist noted that the sedimentary layers were primarily sandy, suggesting that the region was once a shallow coastal environment millions of years ago.
* (Bedfordshire) Recorded as Sandeie in the Domesday Book, the town is named with Old English sand (“sand”) + īeġ (“island”). Doublet of Sanday. * (Carmarthenshire) From Welsh sant + dŷ (“house of the saint”)
Typically placed before the noun it modifies; can also follow a linking verb like 'is' or 'feels'.