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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

filled with cobwebs (spider webs, especially when old and/or covered with dust), covered with cobwebs;

e.g. The cobwebby basement hadn't been cleaned in many years.

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Similar Words

Banal

Commonplace

Cookie-cutter

Diaphanous

Filmy

Flimsy

Frothy

Gauzy

Gossamer

Hack

Hackney

Hackneyed

Insubstantial

Lighter-than-air

Moth-eaten

Musty

Obligatory

Pedantic

Peekaboo

See-through

Sheer

Shopworn

Sleazy

Stale

Stereotyped

Threadbare

Timeworn

Tired

Translucent

Transparent

Trite

Uninspired

Unsubstantial

Well-worn

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Opposite Words

Absorbing

Atypical

Cloudy

Coarse

Drab

Dull

Durable

Engaging

Engrossing

Exciting

Extraordinary

Foggy

Gripping

Hazy

Heavy

Interesting

Intriguing

Invigorating

Knockabout

Lackluster

Lasting

Misty

Murky

Nebulous

Opaque

Riveting

Rough

Rude

Smoky

Stimulating

Strange

Tough

Trailblazing

Unaccustomed

Uncommon

Unfamiliar

Unhackneyed

Unheard-of

Unknown

Unprecedented

Unusual

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Related Words

Airy

Arid

Barren

Boring

Canned

Cardboard

Clear

Colorless

Conventional

Cookie-cutter

Crystal

Crystalline

Dainty

Delicate

Derivative

Diaphanous

Drab

Dreary

Dry

Dull

Dusty

Ethereal

Feeble

Fine

Flimsy

Fluffy

Fragile

Frail

Gossamer

Heavy

Ho-hum

Humdrum

Imitative

Insubstantial

Jejune

Leaden

Light

Limpid

Liquid

Lucent

Lucid

Mind-numbing

Monotonous

Normal

Numbing

Old

Old-fashioned

Ordinary

Pedantic

Pedestrian

Peekaboo

Pellucid

Ponderous

Prosaic

Ready-made

Rote

Routine

Sheer

Standard

Stock

Stodgy

Stuffy

Tame

Tedious

Tiresome

Tiring

Translucent

Transparent

Tried-and-true

Typical

Uncolored

Undramatic

Unimaginative

Uninspired

Uninteresting

Unoriginal

Unsubstantial

Usual

Wearisome

Weary

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