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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective stringy has 4 senses
- stringy(s = adj.all) wiry - lean and sinewy; Array
- stringy(s = adj.all) fibrous, sinewy, unchewable - (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew; Array
- stringy(s = adj.all) ropey, ropy, thready - forming viscous or glutinous threads; Array
- stringy(s = adj.all) Array - consisting of or containing string or strings; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
stringy, a.
- Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. [1913 Webster]
- Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stringy, adj. (stringier, stringiest)
1 (of food etc.) fibrous, tough.
2 of or like string.
3 (of a person) tall, wiry, and thin.
4 (of a liquid) viscous; forming strings.
1 (of food etc.) fibrous, tough.
2 of or like string.
3 (of a person) tall, wiry, and thin.
4 (of a liquid) viscous; forming strings.
Idiom
stringy-bark Austral. any of various eucalyptus trees with tough fibrous bark.
Derivative
stringily adv. stringiness n.
THESAURUS
stringy
adhesive, amylaceous, besprinkle, capillary, cartilaginous, chewy, cirrose, cirrous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, coriaceous, curdled, doughy, durable, dust, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gossamery, gristly, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hairlike, hairy, hard, hardy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, ligamental, mucilaginous, pasty, powder, resistant, ropy, silky, sinewy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, strong, stubborn, syrupy, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenacious, thick, thickened, threadlike, thready, tough, tough as leather, tremelloid, tremellose, untiring, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, wiryROGET THESAURUS
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Filament
N filament, line, fiber, fibril, funicle, vein, hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili, tendril, gossamer, hair stroke, veinlet, venula, venule, wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute, strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving, beard, ramification, strand, filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform, fibrous, fibrillous, thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy, capillary, capilliform, funicular, wire-drawn, anguilliform, flagelliform, hairy, taeniate, taeniform, taenioid, venose, venous.Tenacity
N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.
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