spidery
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˈspaɪdəri/
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delgado
- The pattern was repeated over and over, forming a spidery-looking wave around the ceiling.
- spidery handwriting
- spidery legs
- spidery scrawl
I can't imagine anyone is going to really say I want super spidery, thick, clumpy lashes, right?
- I can't imagine anyone is going to really say I want super spidery, thick, clumpy lashes, right?
- It truly just stacks layers after layers, and it never gets ugly or chunky or spidery.
Examples
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A sign written in a spidery hand directed me to the second floor.
Fiction book (1992) -
The fire was the only source of light in the room; it cast long, spidery shadows upon the walls.
Fiction book (2000) -
The old ferry dock was a spidery, gray skeleton of rotting timber.
Fiction book (2002) -
"You might find it interesting," Reiter wrote in a spidery, cramped hand, but it was fairly easy to decipher.
Fiction book (1991) -
The artist used spidery lines to create an intricate drawing of a spiderweb.
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Her handwriting is quite spidery, making it difficult to read.
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The plant's spidery branches reached out in all directions, resembling a spider waiting for its prey.
Synonyms
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6.2
Long, thin, and looking weak, often said about plants or people
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3.8
Thin and light in form, like a small person or light cloth
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9.8
Looking like a spider or a spider's web
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5.5
Shaped or moving like a spider with long thin legs
Very thin and delicate like a spider's web
Having thin, long legs or parts and moving like a spider
Having thin lines that form a shape like a spider's web
Shaped like a spider or a spider's web
Having many thin connected threads like a spider's web
Antonyms
Compounds
How Delicate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spidery comes from spider plus the ending -y, which means 'like' or 'having'. So spidery means 'like a spider' and is used for thin, delicate lines or shapes like a spider's legs or web.