Definition of Splintery

1. Adjective. Subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces.

Similar to: Breakable
Derivative terms: Splinter

2. Adjective. Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points. "A rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
Exact synonyms: Slivery
Partainyms: Sliver, Splinter
Derivative terms: Sliver, Sliver, Splinter

Definition of Splintery

1. a. Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.

Definition of Splintery

1. Adjective. Having many splinters. ¹

2. Adjective. Given to splintering. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Splintery

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Splintery

splinter bars
splinter group
splinter groups
splinter haemorrhages
splinter parties
splinter party
splinter up
splintered
splintered fracture
splintering
splinterings
splinterless
splinterlike
splinterproof
splinters
splintery
splinting
splintlike
splints
splish
splished
splishes
splishing
split
split-brain technique
split-finger fastball
split-half correlation
split-level
split-pea

Literary usage of Splintery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"The'fracture is coarse and long splintery, and sometimes inclines to slaty in the ... Its inferior lustre, and flat splintery fracture, distinguish it from ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1849)
"Splintery Gadolinite.—Of a splintery fracture. When heated, it sometimes, ... Splintery gadolinite dissolves in hydrochloric acid with separation of ..."

3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"It is very bard, but breaks easily, and affords very sharp-edged splintery fragmente ; whence it ua stone which strikes most copious sparks with steel. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"... or splintery. Sectile. Thin fibres flexible. Some serpentines contain alumina, others are free from it. ..."

5. The Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts by John White Webster, John Ware, Daniel Treadwell (1825)
"Siliceous Oxide of (Fibrolite ?) > Cummington J Do. Argentine Williamsburg, j Anthophyllite* Blanford " I Mr Charles U. Shep- lolite? Goshen " J Splintery ..."

6. Elements of Mineralogy by Richard Kirwan (1810)
"Those of splintery fracture.— Their colour is generally grey, bluish grey, or greyish blue; their hardness from 7 to 8, and their specific gravity from 2,6 ..."

7. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Thomas Rupert Jones, Great Britain Admiralty (1875)
"Excessively splintery shales with very faint fossil impressions; 22. ... 2 feet: splintery shale with faint vegetable impressions; 35. ..."

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