CLEFT
What does "CLEFT" mean?
A split, crack, or fissure, especially a narrow opening in rock or a hollow between two parts.
Meanings
- A deep split or fissure, especially in rock or the ground. Ferns grew in the cleft of the cliff face.
- A hollow or indentation between two parts, as in a chin. He had a small cleft in his chin.
- Split or divided, especially partially. The animal has a cleft hoof.
- Past tense and past participle of 'cleave': to split or have split. The axe had cleft the log in two. archaic
Word origin
From Old English 'clyft', a split or fissure, related to 'cleofan' (to cleave) and to German 'Kluft'.
Remember it
CLEFT is what's LEFT after you cleave something - the gap that remains.
A little poem
Rain found one small cleft-
a thousand winters later,
a canyon answers.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told the geologist his joke about the rock split me in two. He said, 'Glad I left you cleft.'
What it teaches
Every cleft began as a hairline crack that nobody bothered to mend.
Quick facts
What does CLEFT mean?
A split, crack, or fissure, especially a narrow opening in rock or a hollow between two parts.
Is CLEFT a valid word?
Yes — CLEFT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CLEFT?
CLEFT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CLEFT come from?
From Old English 'clyft', a split or fissure, related to 'cleofan' (to cleave) and to German 'Kluft'.
What can CLEFT teach us?
Every cleft began as a hairline crack that nobody bothered to mend.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.