stringier; stringiest
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: capable of being drawn out to form a string : ropy
a stringy precipitate
stringiness
noun
Examples of stringy in a Sentence
a tough, stringy piece of meat
stringy hair that clearly needs a good washing
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After all, full and healthy hair ends (at any length) look far better than long, stringy, split strands.
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
Their pads look deflated compared to the life rafts strapped to goalies today, the ones that make stringy 6-foot-4 bean poles look like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
After all, full and healthy hair ends (at any length) look far better than long, stringy, split strands.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
White-rot fungi release aggressive enzymes that bust apart lignin to get at the other bits, leaving behind white, stringy wood that’s mostly cellulose.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stringy. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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stringy
adjective
stringier; stringiest
: containing, consisting of, or resembling string
stringy cheese
stringy hair
stringiness
noun
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