splintery.

Having or breaking into narrow, sharp fragments.

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Words that belong together

• splintery wood
• splintery edge

On the page

The splintery rail caught her sleeve.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more splintery; superlative most splintery when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.