Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a spider in form, characteristics, or behavior.
- adjective Resembling a spider's web; very fine.
- adjective Infested with spiders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spiderlike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
spider . - adjective Characterized by many
spindly extensions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of course, I would have to keep copious research notes in spidery handwriting in a leather-bound notebook, so that after my successor found the notebook with my remains, my research could go on unabated.
My New Job Richard Nokes 2006
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Make sure your child wears gloves and long-sleeved garments if she is going to be handling wood for the fireplace, cleaning out the attic or garage, or working in the garden or some other "spidery" places.
Spider Bites 2010
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UNEF's first starships had been possessed of a kind of spidery, delicate beauty.
The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975
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Everything is painted - even over a plug socket in the gallery wall - with a kind of spidery intricacy, like a giant map from
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The characters she meets include a spidery boiler-room man with six arms, a monster with no face and a massive "stink spirit" who vomits the disgusting contents of a heavily polluted river over her.
Spirited Away: No 8 Killian Fox 2010
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Her Mollison Library catalogue cards were carefully drafted on slips of scrap paper in the spidery longhand of which I still treasure numerous specimens, mostly cheeky postcards that she sent to me while I was living in Rome, and much later in New York, and Adelaide.
The Earth Goddess 2009
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And I accompanied her along the spidery bridge to the top of the
CHAPTER XV 2010
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It seems that certain connoisseurs were not averse to engineering breakages so that precious vessels could be mended in this way, and beyond the sinuous lines — some exquisitely fine, occasionally spidery and nervous, others unctuous, broad, plump, and fluid — the volatile elements of chance and happenstance, in other words the randomness of these sudden breakages, lends to this art its clever brinkmanship with the big twin concepts of time and impermanence.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Thus, throughout the organization of the Oligarchy, our own organization, weblike and spidery, was insinuating itself.
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The note, written in blue ink with a spidery hand, listed the main discussion topics, from voting reform to party funding and fixed-term parliaments.
Spending review: day of cuts begins with raid on BBC Patrick Wintour 2010
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