Adjective: scrambly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more scrambly |
| Superlative | most scrambly |
Sample Sentences
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You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path. [1999, Ronald Turnbull, Walking in the Lowther Hills:]
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A ledge takes you behind the first fall, then it's over a rise and down a steep scrambly gully in the shadow of towering red flanks... [2003, Gillian Price, Walking in the Dolomites:]
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In summer this is a scrambly mixture of vegetation and loose rock; when frozen solid or snow covered it's rather more pleasant. [2006, Dan Bailey, Scotland's mountain ridges:]
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It is possible, in this scrambly way, not only to see colours, but almost to smell them, too. [1999, Jasmine Lee O'Neill, Through the eyes of aliens: a book about autistic people:]
Adjectives inflected like scrambly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From scramble + -y.