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# groovy

«groovy» in Mova's school dictionary: **cool, fashionable, exciting or very nice; it was popular…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (groovy, groovier, grooviest) — slang, dated

### meaning for a pupil

1) (slang, dated) Groovy means cool, fashionable, exciting or very nice; it was popular in the 1960s and 1970s and now often sounds funny or old-fashioned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#m1)

2) (rare) Groovy means having grooves (lines cut into a surface). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children hear it from grandparents, in old films or as a joke: «Groovy, man!». In stories it shows a character from the hippie era or someone trying to sound cool. It tells the reader approval in a playful way.

### examples

- That's a groovy shirt, Grandad! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#x1)
- «Groovy!» said the hippie in the cartoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#x2)
- We danced to some groovy 70s music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#x3)
- Your new bike is pretty groovy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#x4)
- The party had groovy lights and a disco ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#x5)
- Dad still says «groovy», and we all laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/#x6)

### note

Slang, dated — not for formal writing. Comparative: groovier, grooviest. From «in the groove», meaning playing music well. Today «cool» is the usual word; «groovy» is often used ironically.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «groovy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groovy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.