spidery

[ spahy-duh-ree ]

adjective

1. like a spider or a spider's web.
2. full of spiders.

ˈspidery

/ ˈspaɪdərɪ /

adjective

1. thin and angular like a spider's legs

   spidery handwriting

Word History and Origins

Origin of spidery¹

First recorded in 1830–40; spider + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Picture a 3D hexagonal head, a long neck, and tiny spidery arms.

From Singularity Hub 

More than 100 radio telescopes — from spidery antennas hunkered low to the ground to supersized versions of Reber’s dish that span hundreds of meters — dot the globe.

From Science News

A spidery network of quiet gravel roads, many of which are used by the 70- and 100-kilometer Rasputista Spring Classic gravel races, are right out the door.

From Outside Online

Soon Stilts would be stepping his spidery legs over me to face off with Frank.

From The Daily Beast

Around the edges in her own spidery scrawl she would ask how I was.

From The Daily Beast

Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses.

From The Daily Beast

She begins by a ruthless survey of corners, floors, spidery rafters, and grimy windows.

From Project Gutenberg

Aunt Ann with her ringlets, and her spidery kind hands, and her grave old aquiline smile—a fine old lady, Aunt Ann!

From Project Gutenberg

It was a light frame of white metal bars, with spidery coils and huge glowing tubes and flimsy spinning disks mounted in it.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a crackling, and the long, spidery limbs quivered and writhed.

From Project Gutenberg

Hazy forms materialized on the lighted disk—the cage of the transparent, woven basket—dark spidery forms within.

From Project Gutenberg