stringy
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈstrɪŋi/
:
fibroso
- The cheese doesn't go in, otherwise it becomes stringy and not good.
- stringy material
I don't want to go crazy but I still want that like stringy cheesy effect.
- I don't want to go crazy but I still want that like stringy cheesy effect.
- Think high fiber and think stringy fiber like asparagus and celery, and also things like oats, dandelion greens.
- It felt so stringy and thin whenever it was long and all that dead hair was on it.
Examples
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One hippie from the journalism class, who wore a headband and long stringy hair, remarked on it.
Fiction book (1998) -
His hat had fallen off, revealing long, stringy gray hair and a sizable bald spot.
Fiction book (2001) -
When I was a girl, I had long, stringy hair.
Fiction book (1996) -
That's what they say it tastes like, stringy chicken.
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Her puffy face and stringy hair made her seem exotic.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sophia arrived in her bank clothes, but I wore jeans and a stringy black sweater.
Fiction book (1998) -
At room temperature, the cheese is soft like butter; when melted, it is wonderfully stringy.
Fiction book (1990) -
The mangoes were thick-skinned on the outside and stringy in the pulp.
Fiction book (1994) -
They looked so stringy when I put them in and now they're so thick and beautiful and full of buds.
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After cooking, the pasta became stringy, making it difficult to serve.
Synonyms
8
7.9
Being thin and like a small string
1
8.2
Thin and long like a thread or hair
1
7.9
Like long thin threads that stretch and feel sticky
Long and thin in shape or texture like a thread
Very thin and like a strand of hair
Forming thick, sticky threads when moved or pulled
Antonyms
How Stringy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stringy comes from string ('a long thin piece of thread') plus -y ('like' or 'full of'). So stringy describes something that looks or feels 'like strings', with long thin strands or a thread-like texture.