What does splintery mean?

splintery means "subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in splintery?

splintery has 3 syllables: splin-te-ry. The stress falls on "splin". In IPA it is /ˈsplɪntɚi/.

What is another word for splintery?

Close synonyms include slivery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is splintery a common word?

splintery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

splintery — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
Similarbreakable
2.
resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
“a rough splintery floor of old pine boards”
Synonymsslivery

Questions about splintery

What does splintery mean?: splintery means "subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in splintery?: splintery has 3 syllables: splin-te-ry. The stress falls on "splin". In IPA it is /ˈsplɪntɚi/.

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