What is another word for nubbled?

Pronunciation: [nˈʌbə͡ld] (IPA)

Nubbled is a term that describes a surface that is covered in small, rounded bumps or lumps. Synonyms for this word include knobby, bumpy, pebbled, textured, and dappled. Other possible words that can be used include uneven, roughened, blistered, granular, and ridged. Each of these terms can be used to describe surfaces that have a slightly irregular texture, whether they are natural materials like rocks or plants, or man-made materials like fabrics or plastics. When describing a nubbled surface, it is important to choose the word that best fits the object being described and the intended tone of the text.

What are the hypernyms for Nubbled?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Nubbled

  • Gilt-tooled on yard-square panels of green leather—imitation, of course—the zodiacal signs looked down from the walls of the executive lunch-room. The air was full of the chatter of voices and the clink of ice-cubes. Waiting to be attacked when the president of the company joined them (he had promised to show at one sharp) was a table laden with expensive food: hard-boiled eggs, shells intact so that it could be seen they were brown, free-range, rich in carotene; lettuces whose outer leaves had been rasped by slugs; apples and pears wearing their maggot-marks like dueling scars, in this case presumably genuine ones though it had been known for fruit growers to fake them with red-hot wires in areas where insects were no longer found; whole hams, very lean, proud of their immunity from antibiotics and copper sulphate; scrawny chickens; bread as coarse as sandstone, dark as mud and nubbled with wheat grains . . .
    John Brunner

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