fissured
Full of cracks
Fissured means marked by fissures—narrow cracks or splits in a surface.
The word describes rock faces, tree bark, dry earth, or weathered skin: The fissured canyon walls revealed millions of years of geological history.
Fissured suggests natural splitting from age, pressure, or drying rather than violent breakage.
Having narrow splits
- cleftNarrow vertical split
- splitSeparation into parts
- gappedHaving spaces between
- seamedJoined by stitching
rent · gashed · fractured · ruptured · broken · chapped · parched · desiccated
Having deep cracks
- riftedSplit by fractures
- faultedHeld accountable for error
- fracturedSplit or splintered
- seismicRelating to ground tremors
tectonic · rocky · escarpment · cliffs · basalt · granite · lava · bedrock
Marked with grooves
- linedMarked with parallel marks
- scoredEarned points in competition
- striatedMarked with parallel grooves
- ridgedHaving raised lines
channeled · rutted · corrugated · wrinkled · creased · etched · incised · carved
Divided into sections
- partitionedDivided into distinct sections
- bifurcatedDivided into two branches
- separatedPut or kept apart
- splitSeparation into parts
cleaved · sundered · dissected · fragmented · disjointed · ruptured · broken · apart
creviced
Having narrow splits
seamed · rent · gashed · fractured · ruptured · broken · chapped · parched · desiccated · weathered
crevassed
Having deep cracks
seismic · tectonic · rocky · escarpment · cliffs · basalt · granite · lava · bedrock · outcrop
furrowed
Marked with grooves
- linedMarked with parallel marks
- scoredEarned points in competition
- striatedMarked with parallel grooves
ridged · channeled · rutted · corrugated · wrinkled · creased · etched · incised · carved · indented
segmented
Divided into sections
- partitionedDivided into distinct sections
- bifurcatedDivided into two branches
- separatedPut or kept apart
split · cleaved · sundered · dissected · fragmented · disjointed · ruptured · broken · apart · discontinuous
- texturessmoothness, smooth, soft, rough, roughness
- geologicaligneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, volcanic, tectonic
- dental termsquadrant, buccal, mesial, lingual, distal