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🚫 Offensive term 👀 Narrow openings
slitty

slitty

8.5
Having long, very narrow openings or shapes like thin cracks
  • adjective
  • /ˈslɪti/
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  • The old car had slitty headlights that barely lit up the road at night.

Examples

  • The cat stared at me with slitty pupils as the sunlight illuminated its face.

  • His eyes were all slitty, like he'd been sleeping.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Oh, Speaking of which, slitty sick slickers, slitty that slit.

  • His eyes were narrow and slitty, giving him a sly appearance.

Synonyms

slit
vsslitty
6 3.9

With a long narrow cut in it

describes a slitlike appearance but not always an actual cut
narrow-mouthed
vsslitty
6.7

Having a small opening at the top

applies more generally to slitlike shapes rather than only to small openings

Antonyms

solid
53 2.5

Not see-through and without gaps or holes

How Narrow

slitty
8.5
slit
6 3.9
gaping
3.4

Surface Forms

slitty positive

Morphology

slitty = slit (transparent) = slit + y

Formed by the productive adjectival suffix '-y' on 'slit', meaning 'having or resembling a slit', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Slitty comes from the common word slit ('a long, narrow cut or opening') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'like', so it literally means 'having narrow openings'.