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Synonyms for scaly

  • adjective

Most common

squamous scabby scabrous lepidote flaky lamellar squamate squamated

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Squamous — covered or abounding with scales

squamous, scabrous, scabby, rough, lepidote, scurfy, furfuraceous, leprose, lentiginous, squamulose

Other

flaky, lamellar, stingy, scaled, squamate, squamated, squamoid, squarrose

Antonyms

unscaly, nonscaly, scaleless

All antonyms of scaly →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Covered or abounding with scales.

    a scaly fish  a scaly stem

Related words

Word family
scaliness scalybutt
Phrases
scaly anteater scaly spleenwort scaly clam
Is a kind of
rough
Other spellings
scaley

Example sentences

  • scabby The dog looked scabby and in poor state.
  • flaky To be good, pâte brisée should be light and flaky.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
scalysteady
squamousrising
scabbyrising
scabrousfalling
lepidotefalling
flakyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
rough1, flaky2
6 letters
scaled1, stingy2, scabby, scurfy
7 letters
leprose
8 letters
squamous2, lamellar3, scabrous, lepidote, squamate, squamoid
9 letters
squamated, squarrose
10 letters
squamulose
11 letters
lentiginous
12 letters
furfuraceous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (flaky2 = 2 syllables).

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