cobwebbyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

cobwebby (comparative cobwebbier, superlative cobwebbiest)

1. Having many cobwebs.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, “Attic Eagles”, in The House of All Sorts‎:

     Off this landing and over the studio was a dark cobwebby place, tangled with wiring, plumbing, ventilation and mystery.

2. Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
   • 1980, Carl Sagan, chapter VI, in Cosmos, Random House, published 2002:

     […] wonderful images of […] the cobwebby features of Ganymede […]

3. (figurative) Old or dated.
   • 2014 August 22, Private Eye, number 1373, page 15:

     As for changing the TV landscape, almost every programme it screened from 8pm until the early hours in the week beginning 11 August was either a repeat of one of its original transmissions or a re-run of cobwebby sitcoms and dramas it has bought from established terrestrial networks.

同意語

• (having many cobwebs): cobwebbed
• (resembling a cobweb): spider-webby
• (old, dated): aged, cobwebbed, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old or Thesaurus:obsolete

派生語