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Cobwebby

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having many cobwebs.

    "Off this landing and over the studio was a dark cobwebby place, tangled with wiring, plumbing, ventilation and mystery."

  2. 2
    Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.

    "[…] wonderful images of […] the cobwebby features of Ganymede […]"

  3. 3
    Old or dated. figuratively

    "As for changing the TV landscape, almost every programme it screened from 8pm until the early hours in the week beginning 11 August was either a repeat of one of its original transmissions or a re-run of cobwebby sitcoms and dramas it has bought from established terrestrial networks."

Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with cobwebs wordnet
  2. 2
    so thin as to transmit light wordnet

Etymology

From cobweb + -y.

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