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Definition of Stringy
1. Adjective. Lean and sinewy.
2. Adjective. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew.
3. Adjective. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
4. Adjective. Consisting of or containing string or strings.
Definition of Stringy
1. a. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
Definition of Stringy
1. Adjective. Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stringy
1. resembling a string or strings [adj STRINGIER, STRINGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stringy
Literary usage of Stringy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley Stephen Jones (1918)
"stringy Sentences to be Broken up 12. Avoid stringy compound sentences. The crude,
rambling style which results from their use may be corrected by ..."
2. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley Stephen Jones (1918)
"stringy Sentences to be Broken up Avoid stringy compound sentences. The crude,
rambling style which results from their use may be corrected by separating ..."
3. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley Stephen Jones (1922)
"stringy Sentences to be Broken up 12. Avoid stringy compound sentences. The crude,
rambling style which results from their use may be corrected by ..."
4. Chemical and Physical Analysis of Milk, Condensed Milk, and Infants' Milk by Nicholas Gerber (1882)
"It is thick and of flat taste, and shows its stringy consistency if it is observed
while it runs from the ... It is known to make milk likewise stringy. ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"P- 73 = " In truth, the forests of Australia (consisting principally of woods of
iron-bark, stringy-bark, and other species of the Eucalyptus) seen at a ..."
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