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
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.
• fibrous
• filamentous
• 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
12 April 2025
(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; “empty eyes”; “a glassy stare”; “his eyes were glazed over with boredom”
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