STRINGY

stringy

(adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings

stringy, wiry

(adjective) lean and sinewy

ropy, ropey, stringy, thready

(adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads

fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable

(adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

stringy (comparative stringier, superlative stringiest)

Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.

(of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.

(of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.

(programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.

Synonyms

• fibrous

• filamentous

Anagrams

• tryings

Source: Wiktionary

String"y, a.

1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. Stringy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, and tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition