holey
adjective
hol·ey ˈhō-lē 
: having holes
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey. 
New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021 In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb. Natasha Lavender, SELF, 26 July 2019 This part happens fast, but the gist is that the holey boat founders next to a larger ship that’s sinking and spilling oil into the water. Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 17 July 2017 This weekend is your last chance to shop for holey sweaters ($350) and enamel heart logo pins ($95) at the MET x CDG Pocket Shop, which closes Monday with the Costume Institute exhibition. Alison S. Cohn, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017 Harry makes it out of the holey boat but lands right in the oil like one of those baby pelicans that has to get washed off with Dawn. Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 17 July 2017 Remember when someone turned their fingernails into holey slices of Swiss cheese and the internet was devastated by the grossness? Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 14 July 2017 See More
New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021 In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb. Natasha Lavender, SELF, 26 July 2019 This part happens fast, but the gist is that the holey boat founders next to a larger ship that’s sinking and spilling oil into the water. Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 17 July 2017 This weekend is your last chance to shop for holey sweaters ($350) and enamel heart logo pins ($95) at the MET x CDG Pocket Shop, which closes Monday with the Costume Institute exhibition. Alison S. Cohn, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017 Harry makes it out of the holey boat but lands right in the oil like one of those baby pelicans that has to get washed off with Dawn. Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 17 July 2017 Remember when someone turned their fingernails into holey slices of Swiss cheese and the internet was devastated by the grossness? Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 14 July 2017 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English holly, holi, from hole, holle hole entry 1 + -i, -y -y entry 1
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined above
holey
adjective
as in shredded
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- shredded
- patchy
- lacerated
- dilapidated
- decrepit
- mangy
- dingy
- tacky
- grungy
- scuzzy
- lacerate
- faded
- scruffy
- tattered
- raggedy
- frayed
- broken-down
- dowdy
- dog-eared
- moth-eaten
- shabby
- ratty
- ragged
- tatterdemalion
- threadbare
- run-down
- worn-out
- seedy
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unused
- new
- brand-new
- spic-and-span
- spick-and-span
- extendability
- extendable
- extended
- extended (out)
- extended consequent
- extended coverage
- extended families
- extended family
- extended harmony
- extended insurance
- extended order
- extended out
- extended play
- extended river
- extended term insurance
- extendedly
- extendedness
- extendednesses
- extender
- extenders
- extendibilities
- extendibility
- extendible
- extending
- extending (out)