stringy
Adjective Satellite
- lean and sinewy
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- consisting of or containing string or strings
Adj
- Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
- Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- Resembling or involving text strings.
- Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
Adjective
- Resembling string; tough and fibrous.
Examples
- His Words With Friends tile rack felt stringy, full of odd letters that were hard to connect.
- The meat was quite stringy.
Origin / Etymology
From string + -y.
Synonyms
fibrous, ropey, ropy, sinewy, thready, unchewable, wiry, filamentous
Scrabble Score: 11
stringy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstringy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stringy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
stringy: valid Words With Friends Word