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cobwebbed en · ADJ

Etymology

From cobweb + -ed.

Meanings

1. Covered with cobwebs
   • The paint in many rooms is peeling, and in some rooms (closed for repairs) the furniture is dusty and cobwebbed. 1988 August 12, Ben Joravsky, “Can the Lawson Y be saved as an SRO hotel?”, in Chicago Reader:
2. Old or outdated.
   • The clear winners in this cynical charade were the Clintonoid Democrats, who (as well as being hardened to switching and shifting between elitism and populism) could supply the most cobwebbed rules-monger on one hand—the aforementioned Senator Byrd—and the most sinuous arguments of the short-term general will on the other. 2000, Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

uncobwebbed

Synonyms

cobwebby · hoary · cobwebby (covered many cobwebs) · obsolete · aged (old)

Translations (1)

hu pókhálós (covered with cobwebs)