Dictionary Entry
crisscross
crisscross is a 10-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, adverb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
- 2noun
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
- 3transitive verb
To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.
- 4adverb
In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
- 5adverb
With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
- 6noun
a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- 7verb
mark with a pattern of crossing lines
"crisscross the sheet of paper"
- 8verb
mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines
"wrinkles crisscrossed her face"
- 9verb
cross in a pattern, often random
- 10adjective
marked with crossing lines
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- 11adverb
crossing one another in opposite directions
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