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spidery

[ spahy-duh-ree ]

adjective

  1. like a spider or a spider's web.
  2. full of spiders.


ˈspidery

/ ˈspaɪdərɪ /

adjective

  1. thin and angular like a spider's legs

    spidery handwriting

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spidery1

First recorded in 1830–40; spider + -y 1
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Example Sentences

Picture a 3D hexagonal head, a long neck, and tiny spidery arms.

More than 100 radio telescopes — from spidery antennas hunkered low to the ground to supersized versions of Reber’s dish that span hundreds of meters — dot the globe.

A spidery network of quiet gravel roads, many of which are used by the 70- and 100-kilometer Rasputista Spring Classic gravel races, are right out the door.

Soon Stilts would be stepping his spidery legs over me to face off with Frank.

Around the edges in her own spidery scrawl she would ask how I was.

Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses.

She begins by a ruthless survey of corners, floors, spidery rafters, and grimy windows.

Aunt Ann with her ringlets, and her spidery kind hands, and her grave old aquiline smile—a fine old lady, Aunt Ann!

It was a light frame of white metal bars, with spidery coils and huge glowing tubes and flimsy spinning disks mounted in it.

There was a crackling, and the long, spidery limbs quivered and writhed.

Hazy forms materialized on the lighted disk—the cage of the transparent, woven basket—dark spidery forms within.

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