cobwebby

English

cobwebby (comparative cobwebbier, superlative cobwebbiest)

Having many cobwebs.
- 1944, Carr, Emily, “Attic Eagles”, in The House of All Sorts‎:
  Off this landing and over the studio was a dark cobwebby place, tangled with wiring, plumbing, ventilation and mystery.
Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
- 1980, Sagan, Carl, chapter VI, in Cosmos, Random House, published 2002:
  […] wonderful images of […] the cobwebby features of Ganymede […]
(figuratively) Old or dated.
- 2014 August 22, Private Eye, number 1373, page 15:
  As for changing the TV landscape, almost every programme it screened from 8pm until the early hours in the week beginning 11 August was either a repeat of one of its original transmissions or a re-run of cobwebby sitcoms and dramas it has bought from established terrestrial networks.

(having many cobwebs): cobwebbed
(resembling a cobweb): spider-webby
(old, dated): aged, cobwebbed, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old or Thesaurus:obsolete

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