cobwebby
(adjective) covered with cobwebs
diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
(adjective) so thin as to transmit light; “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cobwebby (comparative cobwebbier, superlative cobwebbiest)
Having many cobwebs.
Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
(figurative) Old or dated.
• (having many cobwebs): cobwebbed
• (resembling a cobweb): spider-webby
• (old, dated): aged, cobwebbed, hoary; see also old or obsolete
Source: Wiktionary
Cob"web`by, a.
Definition: Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
