stringy

[ string-ee ]
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adjective,string·i·er, string·i·est.
  1. resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.

  2. coarsely or toughly fibrous, as meat.

  1. sinewy or wiry, as a person.

  2. ropy, as a glutinous liquid.

Origin of stringy

1
First recorded in 1660–70; string + -y1

Other words from stringy

  • string·i·ness, noun

Words Nearby stringy

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How to use stringy in a sentence

  • Smith—sporting blue jeans, combat boots, a black blazer, and that signature mess of stringy brown hair—offers to show me around.

    Patti Smith's Private World | Rachel Wolff | January 7, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • It is true that the beef she used was not often beef, but she did not know that, and merely complained that the meat was stringy.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Mr. Neech was a dried-up, snuff-coloured man, with a long thin nose and stringy neck and dark piercing eyes.

    Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
  • I then produced large nets made out of strips of green hide and stringy-bark rope.

  • His face grew stringy and his voice harder, and his eyes ready to burst from a smother of fire.

  • On the whole it was voted good though it had a strong, musty taste and was so stringy that it could not be properly chewed.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson

British Dictionary definitions for stringy

stringy

/ (ˈstrɪŋɪ) /


adjectivestringier or stringiest
  1. made of strings or resembling strings

  2. (of meat, etc) fibrous

  1. (of a person's build) wiry; sinewy

  2. (of liquids) forming in strings

Derived forms of stringy

  • stringily, adverb
  • stringiness, noun

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