| 单词 | thready |
| 释义 | thready (once / 90224 pages) adj WORD FAMILY thread: threaded, threader, threading, threadlike, threads, thready+/threader: threaders USAGE EXAMPLESAt its worst, it can be thready and attenuated, hooting like a tin whistle, an appraisal with which countertenors of bygone days were often saddled. New York Times(Apr 23, 2016) However, in addition to counting heartbeats, we learned to evaluate the quality of that pulse: bounding, thready, etc. Washington Post(Jan 07, 2016) It sounds like a thready segue into a fat joke, more than a fat joke itself, as though she’s — heh — testing the waters. Time(Oct 31, 2014) 1adj forming viscous or glutinous threads Syn ropey, ropy, stringy thick relatively dense in consistency 2adj thin in diameter; resembling a thread Syn filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
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