Straw

Quick meaning: Straw is a noun meaning (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Meaning

(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A drinking straw.
2. (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
3. (figurative, chiefly in the negative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
4. A straw owner.
5. Made of straw.
6. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
7. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

Example Sentences

to not care a straw

A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.

‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw, Nor all thine arrows to boot; If I get a knop upon thy bare scop, Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’

He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.

Word Forms

• straws
• strawing
• strawed

Synonyms for straw

Depending on context, synonyms include litter, strawen, chromatic, stalk, husk, chaff.

Antonyms for straw

Common opposites include providently.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chaff, shuck, husk, stubble, stalk, colored.

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