Flaky

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made of or resembling flakes.
  • adj. Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments: flaky pastry.
  • adj. Slang Somewhat eccentric; odd: "that slightly flakey quality, in joy as well as in grief, that prepares us subtly for the mad scenes to come” ( Village Voice).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • adj. Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
  • adj. Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • adj. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons.
  • adj. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; -- of behavior.
  • adj. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery, especially electronic devices.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of flakes or locks; lying or cleaving off in flakes or layers; flake-like.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  • adj. made of or easily forming flakes
  • adj. made of or resembling flakes
    • Equivalent
    unconventional    tender   
    Variant
    flakier    flakiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flakelike    offbeat    whacky    cleavable    laminate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blakey    achy    bakey    blakey    breaky   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    powdery    chewy    mealy    unbaked    crumbly   
     
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