Thesaurus / splay
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synonyms for splay
- bulky
- heavy-handed
- inept
- ponderous
- ungainly
- unwieldy
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
- empty
- horizontal
- low
- unbroken
- even
- flush
- oblate
- plane
- reclining
- collapsed
- complanate
- decumbent
- deflated
- extended
- fallen
- outstretched
- planar
- planate
- pancake
- procumbent
- prone
- prostrate
- punctured
- recumbent
- spread-out
- supine
- tabular
- awkward
- bumbling
- clownish
- gauche
- loutish
- lumbering
- lumpish
- lumpy
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- rustic
- uncouth
- ungainly
- hulking
- ungainly
- unwieldy
- blundering
- bovine
- bumbling
- clunking
- halting
- heavy
- overgrown
- clodhopping
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawky
- heavy-footed
- inept
- klutzy
- lead-footed
- lumpish
- maladroit
- ponderous
- two left feet
- unhandy
- wooden
- ample
- broad
- deep
- expanded
- extensive
- far-reaching
- full
- immense
- large
- loose
- spacious
- vast
- advanced
- all-inclusive
- baggy
- capacious
- catholic
- commodious
- comprehensive
- dilated
- distended
- encyclopedic
- far-ranging
- general
- inclusive
- large-scale
- liberal
- open
- outspread
- outstretched
- radical
- scopic
- squat
- sweeping
- tolerant
- universal
- voluminous
- skew
- tilt
- aim
- bank
- beam
- bend
- bevel
- cant
- decline
- descend
- deviate
- diverge
- grade
- heel
- incline
- lean
- level
- list
- point
- swerve
- tip
- train
- veer
- lie obliquely
- angle
- ascend
- bank
- bevel
- cant
- descend
- dip
- drop
- fall
- heel
- incline
- lean
- list
- pitch
- rake
- recline
- rise
- shelve
- skew
- tip
- drop away
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use splay in a sentence
Draw each hand into a fist or, for fingertips, lift until you’re holding your bodyweight on your fingertips, with your fingers splayed open for stability.
7 MOVES TO COMBAT WRIST PAINJVERSTEEGHAUGUST 8, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEOn the decks, people were splayed out on their towels, lazily soaking up every ounce of sunshine, as if they had nowhere else to be.
DENMARK IS OPEN TO AMERICANS—HERE’S WHAT IT’S LIKE TO VISIT RIGHT NOWMARY HOLLANDJULY 2, 2021THE DAILY BEASTA few possessions earlier, James had taken a foul to the face from Warriors forward Draymond Green that left him splayed out on the court and needing eye drops once he returned to the bench.
WITH BLURRED VISION BUT PINPOINT ACCURACY, LEBRON JAMES BURIES LATE THREE TO RESCUE LAKERSBEN GOLLIVER, DES BIELERMAY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTGirls, she explained, held their hands out at a distance, fingers splayed like a fan, to look at their nails.
I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO LIVE UNAPOLOGETICALLY IN A WORLD FREE OF GENDER EXPECTATIONS, INCLUDING MINEE.J. LEVYMAY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHer legs gradually drew up, splaying her knees outward — and drawing her feet inward — as if in some cruel, lotus-like pose.
WHEN BIRTHS GO HORRIBLY WRONG, FLORIDA PROTECTS DOCTORS AND FORCES FAMILIES TO PAY THE PRICEBY CAROL MARBIN MILLER AND DANIEL CHANG, MIAMI HERALDAPRIL 8, 2021PROPUBLICAThey are cut on the splay so that the front end is half the width of a header and one side half the length of the brick.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSNo variation, no change; the art of it is to keep almost to the same groove, and not to make the figure broad and splay.
THE HILLS AND THE VALERICHARD JEFFERIESThe centre porch has twisted columns, which are carried round the splay of the arch.
CATHEDRAL CITIES OF ITALYWILLIAM WIEHE COLLINSSuch a collection of splay feet, puffed joints, and misshapen limbs was assuredly never before made within so small a compass.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 68, NO. 417, JULY, 1850VARIOUSThey are boldly splayed off, and in the middle of the splay is set a shaft, which finishes with a sculptured capital.
SOME ACCOUNT OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN SPAINGEORGE EDMUND STREETWORDS RELATED TO SPLAY
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- ponderous
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- ungainly
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- unwieldy
- weedy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.