splintery
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- adjective
- /ˈsplɪntəri/
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astilloso
- 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
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.