sprawly

sprawly
/spraw"lee/, adj., sprawlier, sprawliest.
tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
[1790-1800; SPRAWL + -Y1]

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • sprawly — adjective spread out irregularly a big sprawly city • Similar to: ↑extended • Derivationally related forms: ↑sprawl …   Useful english dictionary

  • sprawly — /ˈsprɔli/ (say sprawlee) adjective tending to sprawl; straggly. {sprawl + y1} …  

  • deltoid — Synonyms and related words: centrifugal, cuneate, cuneated, cuneiform, delta shaped, deltalike, divaricate, divaricating, divergent, diverging, fan shape, fan shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, open, outspread,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fan shaped — Synonyms and related words: centrifugal, delta shaped, deltalike, deltoid, divaricate, divaricating, divergent, diverging, fan shape, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, open, outspread, outstretched, palmate, palmated,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • flaring — Synonyms and related words: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant, blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent, candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid, extravagant, fan shape, fan… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • open — Synonyms and related words: Spartan, abandoned, aboveboard, absolute, accented, acceptable, accessible, activate, admissible, admissive, admissory, adumbrate, advertise, affirmed, afford, agape, agreeable, air, ajar, aloof, altruistic, alveolar,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • outstretched — Synonyms and related words: deltoid, fan shape, fan shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, open, outspread, patulous, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • splay — Synonyms and related words: aberrate, addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ampliation, amplification, attenuation, augmentation, awkward, bestrew, branch, branch out, broadcast, broadcasting, broadening, circumfuse, circumfusion, crescendo, deal… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • sprawling — Synonyms and related words: accumbent, couchant, couche, crawling, decumbent, deltoid, draped, fan shape, fan shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, flat, groveling, lolling, lounging, lying, open, outspread,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • spread — Synonyms and related words: aberrate, aberration, accelerated, access, accessible, accession, accretion, accrual, accrue, accruement, accumbent, accumulate, accumulation, acreage, addition, adjunct, advance, advertise, affirmed, afghan,… …   Moby Thesaurus

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”