stringy

[ string-ee ]

adjective

, string·i·er, string·i·est.

1. resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces:

   stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.

2. coarsely or toughly fibrous, as meat.
3. sinewy or wiry, as a person.
4. ropy, as a glutinous liquid.

stringy

/ ˈstrɪŋɪ /

adjective

1. made of strings or resembling strings
2. (of meat, etc) fibrous
3. (of a person's build) wiry; sinewy
4. (of liquids) forming in strings

Derived Forms

• ˈstringily, adverb
• ˈstringiness, noun

Other Words From

• stringi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stringy¹

First recorded in 1660–70; string + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Sneezelike contractions appeared to expel and move the specks along a “mucus highway” across the surface of the sponge to points where they collected in stringy, gooey clumps.

From Science News

Using a spoon, scrape out the seeds and stringy pulp, transfer them to a small bowl of water, and separate the seeds from the pulp.

From Washington Post

It's also true that--like many squashes and gourds--it needs to be stewed and pureed to get rid of its stringy texture.

From The Daily Beast

A dense and stringy fruit, it needs the accompaniment of a lot of sugar and spices before it becomes particularly palatable.

From The Daily Beast

That changed Feb. 4, when the stringy 6-foot-3, 23-year-old Knicks guard racked up 25 points against the New Jersey Nets.

From The Daily Beast

Smith—sporting blue jeans, combat boots, a black blazer, and that signature mess of stringy brown hair—offers to show me around.

From The Daily Beast

It is true that the beef she used was not often beef, but she did not know that, and merely complained that the meat was stringy.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Neech was a dried-up, snuff-coloured man, with a long thin nose and stringy neck and dark piercing eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

I then produced large nets made out of strips of green hide and stringy-bark rope.

From Project Gutenberg

His face grew stringy and his voice harder, and his eyes ready to burst from a smother of fire.

From Project Gutenberg

On the whole it was voted good though it had a strong, musty taste and was so stringy that it could not be properly chewed.

From Project Gutenberg