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Definition of ropy in English: ropy(also ropey) adjectiveropier, ropiest ˈrəʊpiˈroʊpi 1Resembling a rope, especially in being long, strong, and fibrous. the ropy roots of the old tree Example sentencesExamples - My sodden hair clings in ropy hanks to my body.
- Quaid has the lean, ropy physique of a lifelong athlete.
- He works out every day, so that the muscles in his arms and legs are thick and ropy.
- The arms connected to those hands were covered in ropy muscle all the way up to the broad shoulders.
- His arms are ropy with muscle, shaved smooth, veins braiding down to his wrists.
- Glossy leaves hung from dipping boughs, and thick, ropy vines crept up massive, strong trees.
- The spindle cell areas showed extensive sclerosis with ropy, thick, osteoid-like collagen and microcalcifications.
- Their long hair was thick and ropy, hanging partway down their broad backs.
- As I balanced atop a trapeze of ropy branches ten feet above the boggy ground, my pack suddenly slipped over my head and I plunged forward.
- But they were strong, too, he could tell by the ropy muscles that flexed underneath their skin.
Synonyms viscous, gelatinous, viscid, sticky, glutinous, mucilaginous, thick stringy, thready, fibrous, filamentous 2British informal Of poor quality. a portrait by a pretty ropey artist Example sentencesExamples - The graphics are at times ropy, but the animation is great, and the feeling of being in the world - albeit a linear, defined world - is very well realised.
- They've sold some right horrors over the years, such as ropey endowments and high charging managed funds.
- But be wary, the quality, while satisfactory on a 3.5in screen, will look very ropey on a 32 in widescreen job.
- Made in a pre-CGI age, it all looks a little ropey, with the fight scenes played for laughs out of necessity.
- Much of the acting is pretty ropey, as if the cast think that they are in panto.
- If you're struggling to get onto the property ladder, the last thing you need is ropey mortgage advice.
- While the premise is ropey at best, this is a damn enjoyable game.
- Some of it is ropey, and some of the tracks go down routes that I wouldn't take nowadays, but on the whole I think it stands up.
- A fairly ropey Greatest Hits collection followed and the recent announcement that Orbital were to split surprised nobody.
- It's a bit ropey sometimes but we're all very committed and confident, just not very talented.
- The other striking difference from the other prequels - and to be honest a lot of the original trilogy - is that there is some good acting and very little ropey dialogue.
- I do think it was put together quite nicely, visually, though, and the look is very effective and evocative - particularly the fact that you're watching a lot of what happens through ropey CCTV footage.
- It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropey hotel.
- It's always being thought that staff from failed e-commerce ventures had gained marketable experience, however ropy the business plan of the firms they worked for was.
- This fact goes some way towards explaining why the nation's personal finances are looking pretty ropey at the moment.
- Only a handful of tracks are sung in rather ropy English.
- I saw the opening 20 minutes or so of the original cut on VHS, but it was ropey and I never got around to finishing it.
- There have been some glowing PR-style puffs for this scheme in the mainstream press, but I think that it's pretty ropey.
- My colleagues' somewhat ropey grasp of physics resulted in a deluge of emails pointing out the error of our ways.
- We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience.
Synonyms unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish inferior, second-rate, low-quality, low-grade, poor, poor-quality, inadequate, imperfect, faulty, defective, jerry-built, shoddy, shabby, crude, unsound, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unworthy, disappointing ill, unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish inferior, second-rate, low-quality, low-grade, poor, poor-quality, inadequate, substandard, imperfect, faulty, defective, jerry-built, shoddy, shabby, crude, unsound, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unworthy, disappointing - 2.1 Slightly ill.
I did feel a bit ropey earlier Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, I was feeling too ropy to make my weekly journey to Arran and I definitely feel the worse for not having gone.
- ‘I felt ropey on the first lap,’ Radcliffe said, who had suffered a knee injury last week.
- Put it this way: I've had the best New Years Eve out for many a year, and still feel ropey 24 hours later!
- By Wednesday I was feeling ropey.
- I had managed to have a shave the night before, but still felt pretty ropey, so I decided to get something to eat.
- I've been struck down - like almost everyone else I know - with the norovirus, although it took me till Saturday morning to work out why I was feeling so ropey.
- So my sister has chickenpox and I'm feeling a bit ropey myself - could I be going down with it too?
Synonyms unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish ill, unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish
Derivatives adverb He has a marathoner's unnatural leanness, to go with his mobile full lips, big beaky nose, and long, ropily veined hands. Example sentencesExamples - We all started fairly ropily, with only Arvo netting two points on the 1st hole.
- Teaching has to try to bridge, however ropily, the gap between those who are confident they have something to pass on and those who are less sure there's anything they need to learn.
- A ropily muscled black man in jeans and a maroon T-shirt stepped out.
- The paper is published daily except Fridays, and features plenty of local news mingled with several pages of agency reports and rather ropily written conservative comment.
noun Oh, the agonies of a principal cellist who soars elegantly skywards in a Shostakovich symphony only to have the reviewer point out the ropiness of the cello section! Example sentencesExamples - The accent on fighting is perhaps overplayed given the slight ropiness of the fighting system.
Rhymes dopey, Hopi, Opie, soapy, topi Definition of ropy in US English: ropy(also ropey) adjectiveˈrōpēˈroʊpi 1Resembling a rope, especially in being long, strong, and fibrous. the ropy roots of the old tree Example sentencesExamples - He works out every day, so that the muscles in his arms and legs are thick and ropy.
- The spindle cell areas showed extensive sclerosis with ropy, thick, osteoid-like collagen and microcalcifications.
- As I balanced atop a trapeze of ropy branches ten feet above the boggy ground, my pack suddenly slipped over my head and I plunged forward.
- His arms are ropy with muscle, shaved smooth, veins braiding down to his wrists.
- My sodden hair clings in ropy hanks to my body.
- Glossy leaves hung from dipping boughs, and thick, ropy vines crept up massive, strong trees.
- Quaid has the lean, ropy physique of a lifelong athlete.
- The arms connected to those hands were covered in ropy muscle all the way up to the broad shoulders.
- But they were strong, too, he could tell by the ropy muscles that flexed underneath their skin.
- Their long hair was thick and ropy, hanging partway down their broad backs.
Synonyms viscous, gelatinous, viscid, sticky, glutinous, mucilaginous, thick - 1.1 (of a liquid) resembling a rope in forming viscous or gelatinous threads.
his spit was thick and ropey as he spat
2British informal Poor in quality or health; inferior. a portrait by a pretty ropy artist Example sentencesExamples - It's a bit ropey sometimes but we're all very committed and confident, just not very talented.
- It's always being thought that staff from failed e-commerce ventures had gained marketable experience, however ropy the business plan of the firms they worked for was.
- It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropey hotel.
- This fact goes some way towards explaining why the nation's personal finances are looking pretty ropey at the moment.
- My colleagues' somewhat ropey grasp of physics resulted in a deluge of emails pointing out the error of our ways.
- But be wary, the quality, while satisfactory on a 3.5in screen, will look very ropey on a 32 in widescreen job.
- I do think it was put together quite nicely, visually, though, and the look is very effective and evocative - particularly the fact that you're watching a lot of what happens through ropey CCTV footage.
- The graphics are at times ropy, but the animation is great, and the feeling of being in the world - albeit a linear, defined world - is very well realised.
- While the premise is ropey at best, this is a damn enjoyable game.
- A fairly ropey Greatest Hits collection followed and the recent announcement that Orbital were to split surprised nobody.
- Made in a pre-CGI age, it all looks a little ropey, with the fight scenes played for laughs out of necessity.
- Much of the acting is pretty ropey, as if the cast think that they are in panto.
- There have been some glowing PR-style puffs for this scheme in the mainstream press, but I think that it's pretty ropey.
- If you're struggling to get onto the property ladder, the last thing you need is ropey mortgage advice.
- I saw the opening 20 minutes or so of the original cut on VHS, but it was ropey and I never got around to finishing it.
- We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience.
- The other striking difference from the other prequels - and to be honest a lot of the original trilogy - is that there is some good acting and very little ropey dialogue.
- Only a handful of tracks are sung in rather ropy English.
- They've sold some right horrors over the years, such as ropey endowments and high charging managed funds.
- Some of it is ropey, and some of the tracks go down routes that I wouldn't take nowadays, but on the whole I think it stands up.
Synonyms unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish inferior, second-rate, low-quality, low-grade, poor, poor-quality, inadequate, imperfect, faulty, defective, jerry-built, shoddy, shabby, crude, unsound, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unworthy, disappointing inferior, second-rate, low-quality, low-grade, poor, poor-quality, inadequate, substandard, imperfect, faulty, defective, jerry-built, shoddy, shabby, crude, unsound, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unworthy, disappointing ill, unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish
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