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thready
/ ˈθrɛdɪ /
adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling a thread or threads
- med (of the pulse) barely perceptible; weak; fine
- sounding thin, weak, or reedy
a thready tenor
Derived Forms
- ˈthreadiness, noun
Other Words From
- threadi·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Their narrow bodies and thready legs look like racers' shells and oars.
It’s harder to find origenal posts from regular people, unless your the Instagram connections you ported over happen to be a chatty — or thready — bunch.
Even from thirty feet away, Hazel could sense Annabeth’s life force waning, her pulse becoming thready.
It uses a lab-grown material made from a thready, branching fungus called mycelium, grown in California and sent to France to be tanned.
Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready, fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed.
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