Spider-webby

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling a spider web, or full of spider webs

    "the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale underside of the leaves"

Synonyms

All synonyms
cobwebby

Example

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"the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale underside of the leaves"

Etymology

From spider web + -y.

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