Antonyms for cobwebby


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kob-web-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒbˌwɛb i


Definition of cobwebby

  • As in sheer : adj see-through, thin
  • As in filmy : adj finespun, fragile
Example sentences :
  • I don't like to go in a cobwebby hole, and have you play kill me.
  • Extract from : « St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. » by Various
  • The Lion was cobwebby and scarred; but, notwithstanding, he was a fine figure of a beast.
  • Extract from : « Kisington Town » by Abbie Farwell Brown
  • Paul Dampier peered in through one of the cobwebby lattices.
  • Extract from : « The Boy with Wings » by Berta Ruck
  • Cobwebby, same as arachnoid; bearing hairs like cobwebs or gossamer.
  • Extract from : « The Elements of Botany » by Asa Gray
  • I cannot vouch so confidently for the cobwebby legend which wove itself about him.
  • Extract from : « An Old Town By The Sea » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • But unsnuffed candles and cobwebby window-panes seem to have been in evidence sometimes.
  • Extract from : « Quiet Talks with World Winners » by S. D. Gordon
  • For a while their impressions were blurred, as if they struggled through some murky, cobwebby nightmare.
  • Extract from : « Big Pill » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
  • Everything on the story above was untouched, though perhaps a trifle more dust-covered and cobwebby than before.
  • Extract from : « The School by the Sea » by Angela Brazil
  • She walked slowly down the nave and up the dusty, worm-eaten flight of stairs into the cobwebby regions above.
  • Extract from : « The Head Girl at the Gables » by Angela Brazil
  • Do you see that cobwebby nest with all those hairy caterpillars on it and around it up in that tree?
  • Extract from : « The Burgess Bird Book for Children » by Thornton W. Burgess

Synonyms for cobwebby

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