Stringy
adj, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- 2 Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
"The meat was quite stringy."
- 3 Wiry, lean, scrawny.
"The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it."
- 4 Resembling or involving text strings. informal
"The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results."
- 5 Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
"There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage."
- 1 consisting of or containing string or strings wordnet
- 2 lean and sinewy wordnet
- 3 forming viscous or glutinous threads wordnet
- 4 (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew wordnet
Example
More examples"Her head was surmounted by a huge white chiffon hat, bedecked with three long but rather stringy ostrich feathers."
Etymology
From string + -y.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.