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crawliest

crawliest is the superlative 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 crawliest

What is crawliest the superlative form of?
Crawliest is the superlative form of crawly.

Words near crawliest in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crawliest (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.

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