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Definition of thready in English: threadyadjectivethreadier, threadiest ˈθrɛdiˈθrɛdi 1Relating to or resembling a thread. Example sentencesExamples - Her hair was blonde and thready, and wrinkles covered a face that might have been pretty one day, a long time ago.
- That huge neon glow comes out as a thin, thready coloured tube and nothing like what they saw that night.
Synonyms viscous, gelatinous, viscid, sticky, glutinous, mucilaginous, thick 2(of a sound, especially the voice) scarcely audible. he managed a thready whisper Example sentencesExamples - Joe's voice was thready, his eyes glass-green.
- Her voice is faint and thready, and it is easy to imagine her propped up against the pillows in her Thirsk home, struggling to find the strength to continue.
- 2.1Medicine (of a person's pulse) scarcely perceptible.
Example sentencesExamples - The tongue is red, and there is a rapid thready pulse.
- A weak, thready pulse and pulsus alternans are associated with decreased left ventricular function.
- His pulse was weak, thready, and rapid, his extremities were cold and he was perspiring.
- She is hyperventilating, her pulse is racing and thready.
- Her pulse was thready, and she was in severe need of a doctor.
Rhymes already, Eddie, eddy, Freddie, heady, neddy, oven-ready, ready, reddy, steady, teddy Definition of thready in US English: threadyadjectiveˈTHredēˈθrɛdi 1Relating to or resembling a thread. Example sentencesExamples - Her hair was blonde and thready, and wrinkles covered a face that might have been pretty one day, a long time ago.
- That huge neon glow comes out as a thin, thready coloured tube and nothing like what they saw that night.
Synonyms viscous, gelatinous, viscid, sticky, glutinous, mucilaginous, thick 2(of a sound, especially the voice) scarcely audible. he managed a thready whisper Example sentencesExamples - Joe's voice was thready, his eyes glass-green.
- Her voice is faint and thready, and it is easy to imagine her propped up against the pillows in her Thirsk home, struggling to find the strength to continue.
- 2.1Medicine (of a person's pulse) scarcely perceptible.
Example sentencesExamples - Her pulse was thready, and she was in severe need of a doctor.
- She is hyperventilating, her pulse is racing and thready.
- The tongue is red, and there is a rapid thready pulse.
- His pulse was weak, thready, and rapid, his extremities were cold and he was perspiring.
- A weak, thready pulse and pulsus alternans are associated with decreased left ventricular function.
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