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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈspaɪ.dɚ.i/

形容詞

spidery (comparative more spidery, superlative most spidery)

1. Like a spider.

   Synonyms: spideresque, spiderish, spiderlike

   • 1948 March and April, “A Keypoint in an Intensive Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 115:

     High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.

2. Characterized by many spindly extensions.

   The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze.

   • 1960 April, H. P. White, “The Railways of Sierra Leone”, in Railway Magazine, page 235:

     This shelf is deeply cut into by rivers, so that the line has to cross a series of spidery lattice-girder bridges.

   • 2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:

     At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”

3. Suggestive of cobwebs; spiderweb-like.
4. Infested with or containing many spiders.
5. (writing, figurative) Cramped or illegible; especially when spiky.

派生語

アナグラム

• dipyres