spidery
/ˈspaɪ.dɚ.i/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a spider.
adj
Characterized by many spindly extensions.
adj
Suggestive of cobwebs; spiderweb-like.
adj
Infested with or containing many spiders.
adj
Cramped or illegible; especially when spiky.
Example Sentences
- "“En passant,” if nothing else, would have revealed to Joe, in this imitation of a better trick, the hand of Eugene. […] “Sometimes,” said Eskew, “I think that ’Gene Bantry is jest a leetle bit spiderier than he is lazy.[…]”"
- "High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral."
- "The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze."
- "This shelf is deeply cut into by rivers, so that the line has to cross a series of spidery lattice-girder bridges."
- "At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”"
- "'I cannot make head or tail of it,' confessed Miss Barrowford, as the senseful fingers crossed and recrossed the scrawl, now following a vague spidery line, now drawn where no visible mark appeared to lead. 'Is there any meaning, do you think?'"
Etymology
From spider + -y.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈspaɪ.dɚ.i/