adj
Meaning 1
Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
snaky
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsneɪki/
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rhymes with -eɪki
adj
Meaning 2
Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Sly; cunning; deceitful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Covered with serpents; having serpents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
resembling a serpent in form
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a serpentine wall
- snaky ridges in the sand
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: serpentine, snakelike
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From snake + -y.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ثُعْبَانِيّ (ṯuʕbāniyy) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Belarusian: змяі́ны (zmjaíny) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Belarusian: зьмяі́ны (zʹmjaíny) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Bulgarian: зми́йски (zmíjski) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Bulgarian: змиеви́ден (zmievíden) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Czech: hadí — resembling or relating to snakes
- Czech: hadovitý — resembling or relating to snakes
- Finnish: käärmemäinen — resembling or relating to snakes
- French: serpentin — resembling or relating to snakes
- German: schlangenartig — resembling or relating to snakes
- Italian: serpentino — resembling or relating to snakes
- Macedonian: змиски (zmiski) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Manx: aarnieuagh — resembling or relating to snakes
- Polish: wężowy — resembling or relating to snakes
- Portuguese: serpentino — resembling or relating to snakes
- Russian: змеи́ный (zmeínyj) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Russian: змееви́дный (zmejevídnyj) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Sanskrit: नाग (nāgá) — resembling or relating to snakes
- Serbo-Croatian: змѝјин — resembling or relating to snakes
- Serbo-Croatian: зми̏јаст — resembling or relating to snakes
- Serbo-Croatian: zmìjin — resembling or relating to snakes
- Serbo-Croatian: zmȉjast — resembling or relating to snakes
- Slovak: hadí — resembling or relating to snakes
- Slovene: kačji — resembling or relating to snakes
- Slovene: kačast — resembling or relating to snakes
- Spanish: serpentino — resembling or relating to snakes
- Turkish: yılansı — resembling or relating to snakes
- Turkish: yılanımsı — resembling or relating to snakes
- Ukrainian: змії́ний (zmijínyj) — resembling or relating to snakes