1
[ adjective ] subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces

Used in print

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

I started looking on the splintery truck_bed for a piece of board , a dirt clod - anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer_bottle .

Related terms

breakable

2
[ adjective ] resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points

Synonyms

slivery

Examples

"a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"

Related terms

splinter paring

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Rhymes with

glittery sedimentary supplementary documentary testamentary alimentary complimentary parliamentary rudimentary effrontery jittery mystery notary lottery blustery perfunctory victory flattery contradictory valedictory history pottery buttery premonitory protohistory upholstery adultery battery olfactory coterie watery rotary rectory introductory mastery peremptory directory trajectory factory artery satisfactory refractory unsatisfactory

Phonetic and Homophones

S P L IH1 N T ER0 IY0

Similar Spelling

splinter splint splinters splintered splintering splinterless spline spelunker splint_bone Spilman spelunk Spelman

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