Word.ws English Dictionary

splinterlike

splinterlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a splinter.

Adjective

splinterlike (comparative more splinterlike, superlative most splinterlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a splinter.

Forms of splinterlike

comparativemore splinterlike
superlativemost splinterlike

Origin of splinterlike

From splinter + -like.

Questions about splinterlike

What does splinterlike mean?
Splinterlike means resembling or characteristic of a splinter.
What part of speech is splinterlike?
Splinterlike is an adjective.

Words near splinterlike in the dictionary

  1. splinterize
  2. splinterized
  3. splinterizes
  4. splinterizing
  5. splinterless
  6. splinterlike
  7. splinternet
  8. splinternets
  9. splinterproof
  10. splinters
  11. splinters up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: splinterlike (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: “splinterlike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/splinterlike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.