Flaky

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  • adjective. Made of or resembling flakes.
  • adjective. Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments.
  • adjective. Somewhat eccentric; odd.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of flakes or locks; lying or cleaving off in flakes or layers; flake-like.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • adjective. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons.
  • adjective. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; -- of behavior.
  • adjective. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery, especially electronic devices.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • adjective. Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
  • adjective. Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  • adjective. made of or easily forming flakes
  • adjective. made of or resembling flakes
    • Word Usage
    "They lusted after his recipes, and most especially, whole baked apples wrapped in flaky pie crusts."
    Equivalent
    tender  unconventional  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blakey  achy  bakey  blakey  breaky  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    brittle  brownish  chalky  chewy  crumbly  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abnormal  anomalous  apish  arbitrary  asinine  
    variant
    flakier  flakiest  
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