stringy (redirected from stringiest)

string·y  (strng)

adj. string·i·er, string·i·est

1. Consisting of, resembling, or containing strings or a string.

2. Slender and sinewy; wiry.

3. Forming strings, as a viscous liquid; ropy.

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stringi·ly adv.

stringi·ness n.

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stringy [ˈstrɪŋɪ]

adj stringier, stringiest

1. made of strings or resembling strings

2. (Cookery) (of meat, etc.) fibrous

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

4. (of liquids) forming in strings

stringily  adv

stringiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	stringy - lean and sinewy wiry lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	stringy - (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew sinewy, unchewable, fibrous tough - resistant to cutting or chewing
	3.	stringy - forming viscous or glutinous threads thready, ropey, ropy thick - relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"
	4.	stringy - consisting of or containing string or strings insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal - lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

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stringy

adjective

1. fibrous, tough, chewy, sinewy, gristly, wiry The meat was stringy.

2. straggly, thin, straggling, lank an enormously fat man with long, stringy gray hair

Translations

stringy [ˈstrɪŋɪ] ADJ (stringier (compar) (stringiest (superl))) → fibroso, lleno de fibras

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stringy [ˈstrɪŋi] adj

[meat] → filandreux/euse

(= straggly) [hair] → filasse

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stringy

adj (+er) meat → sehnig, zäh, faserig; vegetable → faserig, voller Fäden; person → sehnig; plant, seaweed, root → lang und dünn; hair → strähnig

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stringy [ˈstrɪŋɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (meat, celery) → filaccioso/a; (cooked cheese) → filante; (plant, hair) → lungo/a e rado/a

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stringy [ˈstrɪŋɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (meat, celery) → filaccioso/a; (cooked cheese) → filante; (plant, hair) → lungo/a e rado/a

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