stringy

stringy is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
2. adjective. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
3. adjective. consisting of or containing string or strings
4. adjective. lean and sinewy

   Synonyms: wiry

5. adjective. forming viscous or glutinous threads

   Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready

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

   Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable

Synonyms

wiry, ropey, ropy, thready, fibrous, sinewy, unchewable

Common word forms

stringier, stringily, stringiest

Words from these letters

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