Meaning

4 senses
  1. Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles.

  2. Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf.

  3. Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction.

  4. (obsolete)Full of strata of rock.

More definitions
  • full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals

Origin

From shelf + -y.

From shelf + -y.

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Forms

more shelfy, most shelfy
Comparativemore shelfy Lesson
Superlativemost shelfy Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedshelf

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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