Word.ws English Dictionary

crawlier

crawlier is the comparative form of crawly.

Meaning of crawly

Adjective

crawly (comparative crawlier, superlative crawliest)

  1. Crawling around.
    • Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider.1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  2. As if covered in moving things such as insects.
    • a crawly sensation

Questions about crawlier

What is crawlier the comparative form of?
Crawlier is the comparative form of crawly.

Words near crawlier in the dictionary

  1. crawlerway
  2. crawlerways
  3. Crawley
  4. Crawley Down
  5. crawlfish
  6. crawlier
  7. crawlies
  8. crawliest
  9. crawlin'
  10. crawling
  11. crawling before one walks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crawlier (page history and authors); crawly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crawlier.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crawlier. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.