Spready
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Spready is an adjective meaning Tending to spread horizontally.
Meaning
Tending to spread horizontally.
More Meanings
- (tanning, of an animal hide) Having a large surface area in proportion to its weight.
- (of a microorganism) Having a tendency to spread more easily.
- (tanning, dated) A spready hide.
- (informal) A spreadsheet.
Example Sentences
These bacteria form large, spready colonies.
I should use very thick worsted and make very big, loopy, spready stitches.
The walls are covered with good Massimos, and the spready tapestry-coloured canvas of Lucas Giordaino and Solimene.
Things about my place were more spready than high, myself; my house, the sheep-dogs, and Dolf, the Persian cat, whose silver fleece parted down the centre of his back and fluffed wide. Even my apple trees and lilacs grew spready.
Word Forms
- spreadies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spilly, smeary, splatty, straggly, spreadsheety, pestilential.
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