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   String·y

   /ˈstriNGē/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of hair) resembling string; long, thin, and lusterless: "her hair was stringy and uncombed" Similar stragglystragglinglankthinOpposite luxuriant
   • ▪ (of a person) tall, wiry, and thin: "he had the thin, stringy look of a rider" Similar lankyganglingganglyrangywiryangularbonyreedyspindlyspindlingskinnysize-zeroscrawnythinthin as a rakesparegauntemaciatedskeletalrawbonedOpposite plump
   • ▪ (of food) containing tough fibers and so hard to eat: "the meat was a bit stringy but delicious" Similar fibrousgristlysinewychewyropytoughleatheryleather-likehardOpposite tendersucculent
   • ▪ (of a liquid) viscous; forming strings.

   Derivatives

   • 1. stringily adverb
   • 2. stringiness noun

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