Thready
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Thready is an adjective meaning Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
Meaning
Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
More Meanings
- (of a pulse) weak.
Example Sentences
A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.
The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.
Word Forms
- threadier
- threadiest
Synonyms for thready
Depending on context, synonyms include thick, thin, stringy, ropy, filamentous, ropey.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include filamentous, filamentlike, threadlike, stringy, ropey, ropy.
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