Root(ish)

Root-y

From 'root' to 'rooty' is a decline in meaning-specificity.

From 'root' to 'rooty' is a movement from harder to softer meaning.

From 'root' to 'rooty' is a movement from the object or the state-of-being itself to a generalized or habitual sense of that object or state-of-being.

From 'root' to 'rooty' is a movement from form to tendency.

From 'root' to 'rooty' is a growth of texture.

Root(ish)

Root-y

blank

moss

mossy

bleary

mull

bloom

nag

blot

nob

nobby

bruise

pick

picky

buzz

poke

pokey

chubby

pulp

pulpy

coarse

pulse

crick

rag

crimp

rip

crush

rot

crust

crusty; crustily

rough

curl

rude

dim

rut

din

scar

dingy

shabby

dot

shack

drape

drapery

shine

drudge

drudgery

shrill

dull

shrink

dung

sip

dust

dusty

sick

sickly

flat

smear

flick

smooth

flit

sneer

fluff

fluffy

solid

flush

snap

snappy; snappishly

fur

furry

speck

fuzz

fuzzy

spark

gleam

slick

gloom

gloomy

spring

springy

glint

spit

gloss

glossy

stain

gout

gouty

stick

sticky

glut

stink

stinky

grab

string

stringy

grind

sting

grit

gritty

strip

grime

grimy

stuff

stuffy

gush

gushy

suck

happy

swarm

heap

taunt

heavy

thick

kiss

kissy

throb

knot

knotty

tardy

lap

tick

lick

torpid

lull

trod

loom

turd

vein

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