What LOUSY means
Infested with lice.
That is the short version. Read on for how to say LOUSY, how to use it, and a quick way to make it stick.
LOUSY at a glance
- Word: LOUSY
- Part of speech: adj
- Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊzi/
- Meaning: Infested with lice.
- Example: Burned their lousy clothes.
Keep this box in view while you read the rest of the page. A short summary like this is often enough for a quick lookup, and the sections below are for when you want the meaning to actually stay with you.
How to say LOUSY
Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊzi/
Part of speech: adj
Say LOUSY out loud a few times. Hearing your own voice say a new word is one of the fastest ways to remember both its sound and its meaning. Try saying it slowly first, then at normal speed, then inside a full sentence. If a part of the pronunciation trips you up, slow down on that part alone before putting the whole word back together.
LOUSY in a sentence
Burned their lousy clothes.
Notice how LOUSY fits into that sentence as adj. Try swapping in your own subject and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it does, you have understood the meaning of LOUSY, not just memorized it.
Ways to remember LOUSY
A new word sticks better when you do something with it, not just read it.
Say it, then use it. Repeat LOUSY once, then build one sentence of your own with it today.
Connect it to something you know. Think of a moment from your own week where LOUSY could apply, even loosely.
Spell it out. Cover the word, spell LOUSY from memory, then check. This catches the letters your eyes skipped over the first time.
Come back tomorrow. A word reviewed a day later is far more likely to stay than one read once and left.
Notice it in the wild. Once you know LOUSY, you will start spotting it in things you read. Each time you notice it, the meaning gets a little more solid.
Play a board with LOUSY
A definition is easier to keep once you have used the word under a little pressure. Try today's word game, or search for more words like LOUSY with the word finder. Missed a word along the way? The vocabulary quiz is a quick way to check what stuck, and missed words come back around for review instead of disappearing.
For teachers and parents
This page works well as a quick reference before a lesson or a homework check. Look up a word, read the definition and example together, then ask the student to build a new sentence with it. A student who can use LOUSY correctly in a sentence they made up has learned it. One who can only repeat the definition back has not, yet.
A quick classroom routine: put LOUSY on the board, cover the definition, and ask the class to guess the meaning from the example sentence alone. Reveal the real definition after a few guesses. It takes a minute and gets students reasoning about context clues instead of just memorizing.
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The letters in LOUSY
- Length: 5 letters
- Vowels: 2 (O, U)
- Different letters: 5, all different
- First letter: L, last letter: Y
Words built from the same letters
- LOCUS: The set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions.
- SULLY: Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.