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Definition of Spiky
1. Adjective. Having or as if having especially high-pitched spots. "Absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass"
Definition of Spiky
1. a. Like a spike; spikelike.
Definition of Spiky
1. Adjective. Having spikes, spiny. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiky
1. resembling a spike [adj SPIKIER, SPIKIEST] : SPIKILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiky
Literary usage of Spiky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fleurs-de-lys: A Book of French Poetry Freely Tr. Into English Verse by Wilfrid Charles Thorley (1920)
"... 35 YOU spiky gorse, you hollye thorn-beset, One on the waste, the other in
the wood; ... spiky ..."
2. Fleurs-de-lys: A Book of French Poetry Freely Tr. Into English Verse by Wilfrid Charles Thorley (1920)
"... 35 YOU spiky gorse, you hollye thorn-beset, One on the waste, the other in
the wood; ... spiky ..."
3. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Hokusai by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1901)
"211, we shall see that this is more primitive and spiky, and not yet realizing
what breadth it should attain. 177. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1873)
"spiky was a character. His short thick neck seemed to have sunk in between his
high shoulders, as though overburdened by the disproportionately big round ..."
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