tunnelly

comparative more tunnelly · superlative most tunnelly

1. Resembling or characterized by tunnels.

   The snores of Mr. Malloy's tenants in the pipes have a deep tunnelly quality.

   1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

   2 more examples

   This will be written under difficulties which you know — shaky trains, tunnelly ways, crowded carriages...

   1922, Maud Monahan, Life and letters of Janet Erskine Stuart

   It was dead, and not that tunnelly deadness of an open line — that would've been the sound of angels singing in heaven compared to this...

   2007, Jennifer Egan, The Keep

   Synonyms: tunnellike