cobwebbed.

Covered or hung with spiderwebs, often dusty old ones.

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Words that belong together

• cobwebbed rafters
• cobwebbed window
• cobwebbed corners

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A cobwebbed window faced the locked garden.

She cleared a path through the cobwebbed storeroom.

Even in the occupied house, the high rafters remained cobwebbed.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Suggests little recent cleaning or disturbance; webs alone do not prove that a room is abandoned. Participial adjective. Degree is normally expressed as more heavily cobwebbed or less cobwebbed; no standard -er/-est forms. Derived from the noun cobweb.