frictiony

frictiony adjective: having a lot of friction (physical or figurative).

Adjective

frictiony (comparative more frictiony, superlative most frictiony)

Having a lot of friction (physical or figurative).
- Few in these hot, dim, frictiony times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money,― or so little,― they are no longer good themselves1896, John Muir, “The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West”, in Sierra Club Bulletin
- We nipped back along the top to the Sentinel Area, where there's the poorly protected Back Slab. It's a frictiony, walk-up thing, with a delicate finish that I wouldn't like to jump off.1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, Pete McDonald, page 86

I can hear the frictiony swish of leaf against leaf.2004, Michael Grant Jaffe, Whirlwind: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 106:
I love how frictiony my playthrough was, how I found the edges of the game's design and adapted to them rather than it arriving pre-adapted to me.2024 December 9, Jacob Geller, “11 of the Best Games From a Staggeringly Good Year of Games” (6:34 from the start), in (Please provide the...

comparative	more frictiony
superlative	most frictiony

From friction + -y.

What does frictiony mean?: Frictiony means having a lot of friction (physical or figurative).
How do you use frictiony in a sentence?: I can hear the frictiony swish of leaf against leaf.
What part of speech is frictiony?: Frictiony is an adjective.

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