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Definition: Spidery |
SpideryAdjective1. (zoology) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spidery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Synonyms: SpiderySynonyms: arachnidian (adj), arachnoid (adj), spiderlike (adj), spiderly (adj). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They may notice that they speak too softly or that their handwriting looks cramped and spidery. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spidery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Spidery" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "spidery": spidery handwriting. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spidery | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spidery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كثير العناكب, عنكبوتي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пълен с паяци, подобен на паяк, паякообразен (spider-like). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pavouèí. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | telangiektasia (red spidery marks, telangiectasia, telangiectasis), telangiektasi (red spidery marks, telangiectasia, telangiectasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | telangiectasie (red spidery marks, telangiectasia, telangiectasis), telangiectasia (red spidery marks, telangiectasia, telangiectasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | teleangiektasia (red spidery marks, telangiectasia, telangiectasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tremblé, en forme d'araignée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krakelig (scrawly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αραχνώδησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עכבישי (arachnid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pókszerû. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | angoloso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lane doo oalleeyn, keyl-chroobagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ideryspay próprio de aranha, cheio de aranhas, araneiforme. (various references) subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, subtile, subtly, tenuous). (various references) паучий (spider's). (various references) pun pauka, paučinast (arachnid, cobwebby), kao pauk. (various references) delgado (delicate, fine, flimsy, slenderly built, slight, slim, thin, trickle), de patas de araña. (various references) spindelliknande. (various references) เต็มไป"้วยแมงมุม, คล้ายใยแมงมุม, คล้ายแมงมุม. (various references) incecik ve uzun, örümcekli, örümcek gibi. (various references) схожий на павутину, тонкий (acute, capillary, gauzy, nice, sleazy, slim, soft, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin), павучий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Spidery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shiderly, snidery, speery, Spiteri, spyder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: prides, prised, redips, spider, spired. | |
-2 letters: dries, drips, dyers, perdy, peris, piers, preys, pride, pried, pries, prise, pyres, redip, resid, rides, riped, ripes, siped, sired, speir, spied, spier, spire, spiry, yipes, yirds. | |
-3 letters: deys, dies, dips, dire, drip, drys, dyer, dyes, espy, ides, ired, ires, peds, peri, pied, pier, pies, prey, pyes, pyre. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: pyrenoids, pyridines, redisplay. | |
+3 letters: depositary, depository, dispensary, eriophyids, hydropsies, hypodermis, presidency, presidiary, pterygoids, pyranoside, redisplays, spiritedly. | |
+4 letters: caryopsides, decryptions, discrepancy, disparately, dispersedly, dystrophies, eurypterids, hypermedias, hyperploids, hypodermics, polyandries, polymerised, predynastic, pyranosides, pyrethroids, pyridoxines, pyrimidines, pyroxenoids, redisplayed, serendipity, stipendiary. | |
+5 letters: cypripediums, depressingly, depressively, despairingly, discrepantly, dispensatory, dispersively, dispiritedly, disreputably, disruptively, hydropathies, hydrospheric, hyperboloids, hypodermises, perfidiously, polydisperse, polyhedrosis, postdelivery, praseodymium, prediscovery, proselytised, proselytized, redisplaying, spheroidally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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