Slivery (Adjective)
Meaning
Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards".
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The old wooden dock was covered in slivery splinters that made it painful to walk on barefoot.
- The carpenter carefully sanded down the slivery edges of the freshly cut plywood to smooth them out.
- After the storm, the beach was littered with slivery shards of driftwood that had been torn from the trees.
- The slivery fragments of glass sparkled in the sunlight, making it difficult to see the broken vase as anything other than a hazard.
- The slivery points of the wooden stakes made them perfect for securing the tent in the hard ground.