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^[1]:

     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.