Skip to content
OneKitly

groovy

adjectiveadjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɡɹuvi//

Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.

    The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.

  2. 2

    obsoleteSet in one's ways.

    She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.

Etymology

Etymology tree English groove Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English groovy From groove + -y.

adjective

  1. 1

    datedCool, neat, interesting.

    The hippies do not often try to define the feelings they experience under the influence of psychedelic drugs. Generally they just say, "Oh, groovy, man," or simply, "Wow."

    Basically Bobby’s just a hard-working, highly creative, friendly, groovy guy who’s got a lot of things he wants to do and is in a hurry to try them all.

    When you move me, everything is groovy.

    Well, I love it! Move really fast, reverse time, save everyone? That sounds groovy! I’m gonna have to try that some day!

  2. 2

    slangReminiscent of the counterculture of the 1960s; hippie, psychedelic.

    Groovy designs by Cyndi Bright and colorful 1960's-inspired papers and accessories, featuring plenty of mod flower, funky stickers, and new Spring colors.

    Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.

    The exchange was not unlike a post-bop version of Alex P. Keaton, the Reaganite teenager played by Michael J. Fox on the NBC sitcom Family Ties, which debuted in 1982, at intellectual odds with his groovy hippie parents.

  3. 3

    Melodious, danceable; particularly of a riff or bassline.

Etymology

From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.

noun

  1. 1

    datedA trendy and fashionable person.

    He also stole a $100-dollar bill from his father's wallet and gave it to a couple of the other Goth kids. […] Nevertheless, all this didn't give him the social status he coveted from his gloomy groovies.

Forms

plural
groovies
comparative
groovier
superlative
grooviest
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).