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cobwebbed

cobwebbed adjective: covered with cobwebs.

Adjective

cobwebbed (comparative more cobwebbed, superlative most cobwebbed)

  1. Covered with cobwebs
    • The paint in many rooms is peeling, and in some rooms (closed for repairs) the furniture is dusty and cobwebbed.1988 August 12, Ben Joravsky, “Can the Lawson Y be saved as an SRO hotel?”, in Chicago Reader
    Synonyms:
    cobwebby
  2. Old or outdated.
    • The clear winners in this cynical charade were the Clintonoid Democrats, who (as well as being hardened to switching and shifting between elitism and populism) could supply the most cobwebbed rules-monger on one hand—the aforementioned Senator Byrd—and the most sinuous arguments of the short-term...2000, Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    aged

Synonyms of cobwebbed

Forms of cobwebbed

comparativemore cobwebbed
superlativemost cobwebbed

Origin of cobwebbed

From cobweb + -ed.

Words formed from cobwebbed

Questions about cobwebbed

What does cobwebbed mean?
Cobwebbed means covered with cobwebs.
What part of speech is cobwebbed?
Cobwebbed is an adjective.

Words near cobwebbed in the dictionary

  1. cobweb sites
  2. cobweb spider
  3. cobweb spiders
  4. cobweb theories
  5. cobweb theory
  6. cobwebbed
  7. cobwebberies
  8. cobwebbery
  9. cobwebbier
  10. cobwebbiest
  11. cobwebbiness

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