What is "stringy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does stringy mean in English? Meaning of stringy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "stringy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "stringy": lean and sinewy

Adjective

  • Meaning: lean and sinewy
  • Synonyms: stringy wiry
  • Similar: lean thin
  • Meaning of "stringy": (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
  • Synonyms: fibrous sinewy stringy unchewable
  • Similar: tough
  • Meaning of "stringy": forming viscous or glutinous threads

    Adjective

  • Meaning: forming viscous or glutinous threads
  • Synonyms: ropey ropy stringy thready
  • Similar: thick
  • Meaning of "stringy": consisting of or containing string or strings

    Adjective

  • Meaning: consisting of or containing string or strings
  • Synonyms: stringy
  • Similar: insubstantial unreal unsubstantial
  • Adjective: Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings. The meat was quite stringy.(of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny. 1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, Zollenstein, chapterI: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, Zollenstein, chapterI: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
  • Synonyms:

    fibrous, gangling, lanky, muscular, sinewy, spindly, tough, wiry, lank, spindling, threadlike, gristly, reedy, ropy,

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    stringy in English: stringy
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