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单词 stringy
释义

stringy

/ˈstrɪŋi /
adjective (stringier, stringiest)
1(Especially of hair) resembling string in being long and thin: her hair was stringy and uncombed...
  • He was pale, bony and angular with stringy hair, and he strutted around the living room with a rat on his shoulder.
  • A thin zombie-like man with yellow sallow skin, long stringy hair and bloodshot eyes stared at them.
  • You might have a clue - you've heard some guys ragging on Sam's baggy jeans, stringy hair and glossless lips.

Synonyms

straggly, straggling, lank, thin
1.1(Of a person) tall, wiry, and thin: he had the thin, stringy look of a rider...
  • I don't know why, just a bad vibe I got from her and her stringy husband.
  • Older and calmer than most of the stringy teenagers, he has been coming to the university for five years.
  • No one was paying attention to the door, so when a very polished, upper-class stringy man walked in, it took awhile for people to notice.

Synonyms

lanky, gangling, gangly, rangy, wiry, angular, bony, reedy;
spindly, spindling, skinny, size-zero, scrawny, thin, thin as a rake, spare, gaunt, emaciated, skeletal, raw-boned
1.2(Of food) containing tough fibres and so hard to eat: the meat was a bit stringy but delicious...
  • Sometimes I've had lobster rolls where the meat was stringy and hard to bite through.
  • The bits of cellophane still attached provide an interesting textural contrast to the spongy dough and stringy cheese.
  • The concept is warm, stringy cheese curds and gravy running down my beard.

Synonyms

fibrous, gristly, sinewy, chewy, ropy, tough, leathery, leather-like, hard
1.3(Of a liquid) viscous; forming strings.The muzzle of the beast was pulled back into a grotesque smile revealing jowls full of razor teeth, dripping with thick, stringy saliva....
  • When you stir, it should be reasonably smooth but a little stringy.

Derivatives

stringily

adverb ...
  • She had straight brown hair that hung stringily down her back, and was wearing, like everyone, a bright blue jumpsuit with a number on the back.
  • Her right arm was bleeding, and her long hair fell stringily into her face.
  • His hair was falling stringily over his face and we started singing the William Tell Overture.

stringiness

noun ...
  • When purchasing choose stalks that are bright coloured, wilted or flappy stalks indicate stringiness.
  • Someone once suggested peeling the stringiness off and eating the rest.
  • In spite of his stringiness, he moved quickly and silently.

Rhymes

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