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stringy
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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.

stringi·ly adv.
stringi·ness n.

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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.stringy - lean and sinewy
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
tough - resistant to cutting or chewing
3.stringy - forming viscous or glutinous threads
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"

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

stringy [ˈstrɪŋi] adj
[meat] → filandreux/euse
(= straggly) [hair] → filasse

stringy
adj (+er) meatsehnig, zäh, faserig; vegetablefaserig, voller Fäden; personsehnig; plant, seaweed, rootlang und dünn; hairsträhnig

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

stringy string


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