scrambly
scrambly adjective: involving a certain amount of climbing.
Adjective
scrambly (comparative more scrambly, superlative most scrambly)
- Involving a certain amount of climbing.
- You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path.1999, Ronald Turnbull, Walking in the Lowther Hills
- A ledge takes you behind the first fall, then it's over a rise and down a steep scrambly gully in the shadow of towering red flanks...2003, Gillian Price, Walking in the Dolomites
- scrambled, mixed-up, unclear, garbled
- It is possible, in this scrambly way, not only to see colours, but almost to smell them, too.1999, Jasmine Lee O'Neill, Through the eyes of aliens: a book about autistic people
Forms of scrambly
| comparative | more scrambly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most scrambly |
Origin of scrambly
From scramble + -y.
Questions about scrambly
- What does scrambly mean?
- Scrambly means involving a certain amount of climbing.
- What part of speech is scrambly?
- Scrambly is an adjective.
Words near scrambly in the dictionary
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