STRINGY (stringier, stringiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: stringier    , stringiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stringy mean? 

• STRINGY (adjective)
  The adjective STRINGY has 4 senses:

1. lean and sinewy

2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

3. forming viscous or glutinous threads

4. consisting of or containing string or strings

  Familiarity information: STRINGY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRINGY (adjective)

Comparative: stringier   
Superlative: stringiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lean and sinewy

Synonyms:

stringy; wiry

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

Synonyms:

fibrous; sinewy; stringy; unchewable

Similar:

tough (resistant to cutting or chewing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Forming viscous or glutinous threads

Synonyms:

ropey; ropy; stringy; thready

Similar:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Consisting of or containing string or strings

Similar:

insubstantial; unreal; unsubstantial (lacking material form or substance; unreal)

 Context examples 

This other man was shorter of leg and longer of arm, with muscles that were stringy and knotty rather than rounded and swelling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Electrical recordings and tracing experiments showed that many of the hypothalamic MCH cells sent inhibitory messages, via long stringy axons, to the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His body was slender and rangy, and his strength more stringy than massive.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was composed of stringy filaments saturated with water, like the berries, and devoid of nourishment.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As a result of injury or inflammation, platelets in blood get activated, become sticky, and bind together and with a stringy protein called fibrin to form a mesh-like plug (the blood clot) that stops bleeding into tissue.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their stringy muscles seemed founts of inexhaustible energy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)