leaky

Speech parts

1. leaky - Adjective

3. leaky - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.

Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tattling talebearing blabbermouthed open elixir split escape flat broken drop extract flowing leak cracked expansive

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Antonyms

tight mackintosh hermetic waterproof impenetrable impervious

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Phrases with the word

leaky hose leaky brain syndrome leaky weir

Derivatives

leakier leakiest

Anagrams

Eakly Kaley kayle Kealy Keyla Lakey leyak Yakel

Examples

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me. Edna St. Vincent Millay

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof. Ron Kaufman

There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. George Eliot

Wiki is like a leaky bucket of information. It's losing information every day. But more information is coming in, so the net is positive. Even if it can lose things, wiki always has more to say than it did the day before. Ward Cunningham

Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel. Bhartrihari

Every wind is against a leaky ship. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

leakproof leakproofness leaktivism leaky abstraction leaky brain syndrome leaky bucket