Antonyms for splay

Grammar : Adj, verb

Spell : spley

Phonetic Transcription : spleɪ

Definition 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

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for splay

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