splintery
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- adjective
- /ˈsplɪntəri/
- Which is to say, it didn't surprise me, but I hoped against hope that it wasn't coming, like when your car goes into a skid, about to slam head-on into a splintery telephone pole, and there seem to be hours, a lifetime, in between the initial tromping on the brakes and the actual impact, as you say to yourself, "This is happening but maybe it
- splintery wooden floor
- splintery wooden walls
- splintery bottom step
Examples
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Even though this is, in fact, a splintery wooden dock that shifts with the movement of the water below it, Alice can still feel herself sinking.
Fiction book (1998) -
Christina tiptoed up the splintery wooden cellar steps.
Fiction book (1990) -
It lay open on the splintery desk.
Fiction book (1996) -
"No," she whimpered, clinging to the splintery wooden rail with her left hand.
Fiction book (1990) -
The text ends abruptly with the diarist's reference to the morning she found a splintery leg bone among her petunias.
Academic text (2010) -
The interior of the box was stifling as he heaved her inside, sending her body sprawling along the rough, splintery bottom.
Fiction book (2000) -
Breathing fast, she glanced at Morgan, saw that he had moved into the shadow of one of the storage cabinets, and was holding a splintery baseball bat over his shoulder.
Fiction book (1994) -
Most of the splinter comes out with tweezers, but it's a splintery splinter, so she needs to pierce the surface of the skin with a sterilized pin for the small particles.
Fiction book (1998) -
She carefully avoided the splintery edges of the old wooden bench.
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He winced as the splintery surface of the fence scratched his hand.
Synonyms
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7.7
Having many thin, sharp pieces like small bits of wood that can prick the skin
Antonyms
How Splintery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Splintery comes from the word splinter, which means a 'small sharp piece' of wood, plus the ending -y, which means 'full of'. So a splintery surface is rough and likely to give you splinters.