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Synonyms for splay
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : spley |
Phonetic Transcription : spleɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for splay Other synonyms for the word splay
- advanced
- aim
- all thumbs
- all-inclusive
- angle
- ascend
- awkward
- baggy
- bank
- beam
- bend
- bevel
- blundering
- blunderous
- bovine
- broad
- broaden
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- cant
- capacious
- catholic
- chunky
- clodhopping
- clownish
- clunking
- collapsed
- commodious
- complanate
- comprehensive
- crude
- decline
- decumbent
- deflated
- depressed
- descend
- deviate
- dilated
- dip
- direct
- distended
- diverge
- drop
- drop away
- dumpy
- elephantine
- encyclopedic
- even
- extended
- fall
- fallen
- far-ranging
- fat
- flush
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- general
- graceless
- grade
- grow
- halting
- ham-handed
- heavy
- heavy-footed
- heavy-handed
- heavyset
- heel
- helpless
- horizontal
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- immense
- incline
- inclusive
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- klutzy
- laid low
- large
- large-scale
- latitudinous
- lead-footed
- lean
- level
- liberal
- lie obliquely
- list
- loose
- loutish
- low
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- lumpy
- maladroit
- oafish
- oblate
- open
- outspread
- outstretched
- overgrown
- pancake
- pitch
- planar
- planate
- plane
- point
- ponderous
- procumbent
- progressive
- prone
- prostrate
- punctured
- radical
- rake
- recline
- reclining
- recumbent
- rise
- roomy
- rude
- rustic
- scopic
- shelve
- skew
- spacious
- splay
- spread out
- squat
- stumbling
- supine
- sweeping
- swerve
- tabular
- thick
- thick-bodied
- thickset
- tilt
- tip
- tolerant
- train
- two left feet
- unable
- unadept
- unbroken
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- ungainly
- unhandy
- universal
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- unwieldy
- vast
- veer
- voluminous
- weedy
- widen
- widespread
- wooden
Définition of splay
Origin :- "to spread out," early 14c., shortened form of desplayen (see display). Pp. adjective splayed "spread out" is attested from 1540s.
- As in lumbering : adj clumsy, awkward
- As in squat : adj short and stocky
- As in wide : adj expansive, roomy
- As in broad : adj wide physically
- As in clumsy : adj not agile; awkward
- As in flat : adj level, smooth
- As in gawky : adj clumsy
- As in slant : verb angle off, slope
- As in slope : verb slant, tilt
- As in flare : verb spread
- Norman windows have only one splay on the internal side of the building.
- Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
- Like the jambs, the arch has a splay which is divided into small panels.
- Extract from : « Portuguese Architecture » by Walter Crum Watson
- Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?
- Extract from : « Measure for Measure » by William Shakespeare
- The window in the east wall has its head and splay of a single stone.
- Extract from : « Romantic Ireland; volume 2/2 » by M.F and B. McM. Mansfield
- No variation, no change; the art of it is to keep almost to the same groove, and not to make the figure broad and splay.
- Extract from : « The Hills and the Vale » by Richard Jefferies
- A figure in the splay of the E. window has been carefully erased by some "conscientious objector."
- Extract from : « Somerset » by G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
- I shall try to cut in a sloping way to splay the board if I can, so that it will fit better when we put it back—if we get one out.
- Extract from : « Sail Ho! » by George Manville Fenn
- Such a collection of splay feet, puffed joints, and misshapen limbs was assuredly never before made within so small a compass.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850 » by Various
- And tell Harrington to shove his own cold, splay fingers into his own pockets for a change.
- Extract from : « The Fighting Chance » by Robert W. Chambers
- As against this they have, unless very carefully bred, a lightness of bone and a tendency to splay feet and flat sides.
- Extract from : « The Sportswoman's Library, Vol. 1 of 2 » by Various
Antonyms for splay
- adroit
- agile
- ascend
- athletic
- broken
- bubbly
- clever
- close-minded
- coordinated
- couth
- cramped
- decline
- decrease
- dexterous
- do
- effervescent
- elevated
- empty
- even
- expert
- forget
- gliding
- go up
- graceful
- increase
- indefinite
- lanky
- leave alone
- level
- lie
- limited
- lithe
- little
- lower
- maintain
- miniature
- narrow
- neglect
- on-course
- quiet
- raised
- restricted
- rise
- rough
- rounded
- rugged
- sharp
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- stay
- straight
- straighten
- tall
- thin
- tiny
- trivial
- uneven
- upright
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