Thready

Word THREADY
Character 7
Hyphenation thread y
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Thready"

What do we mean by thready?

Consisting of or resembling thread; filamentous. adjective

Capable of forming or tending to form threads; viscid. adjective

Weak and shallow. Used of a pulse. adjective

Lacking fullness of tone; thin. adjective

Resembling or consisting of thread in sense 1, 2, or 5.

Containing thread; covered with thread.

Like thread in length and slenderness; finely stringy; filamentous; fibrillar; finely fibrous.

Like thread or filaments; slender. adjective

Containing, or consisting of, thread. adjective

Of, resembling of capable of forming a thread; filamentous adjective

Weak adjective

Thin in diameter; resembling a thread adjective

Forming viscous or glutinous threads adjective

Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.

(of a pulse) weak.

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The word "thready" in example sentences

It can jump up to your finger with each beat of the heart, making it feel taut or wiry, indicating pain, or it can feel as if it’s barely reaching your fingers; this is known as thready, and may show a body weakness. ❋ D.V.M. Donna Kelleher (2003)

I gave him some of the contents to amuse him, and then entering the deserted grinding-shop, walked straight to the door at the end opening into the great wheel-pit, and throwing it back stood upon the little platform built out, and looked down at the black water, which received enough from the full dam to keep it in motion and make the surface seem to be covered with a kind of thready film that was always opening and closing, and spreading all over the place to the very walls. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

His breath was weak and thready, and a lump was beginning to swell oddly on the back of his head. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Picking up her hand, I hoped to find comfort in the thready pulse that tick-tocked against my fingers. ❋ Lynne Griffin (2010)

The only time Mary slept in the same bed as me anymore was when we'd made love and afterward held one another tightly, a quiet wish for the injuries to stop tying knots in whatever last thready bond remained between us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jacob is sitting in the corner of this cell, one hand flapping like a bird, his shoulders hunched, his voice thready and singing Bob Marley. ❋ JODI PICOULT (2010)

His hand trembled as he touched the side of her throat, where a thready pulse fluttered. ❋ Nancy Gideon (2010)

He simply hung in some shadowed middle ground, suspended between life and death, his breathing rasping and slow, the pulse in his neck light and thready and hectically fast. ❋ Anna Elliott (2010)

Open-thready: So, the 2010 Virginia Festival of the Book runs tomorrow through Sunday.... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Baby Mouse dolls with big button eyes, thready whiskers, twisty pink tails, big baby feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But there are a few signs of a new economic heartbeat, albeit thready and fragile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His breath came in short, whistling gasps, his lips were faintly tinged with blue, and when Isolde felt for his pulse, it was thready and fast like the frantic beating wings of a bird. ❋ Anna Elliott (2010)

It is thready, weak and far too slow, half of what it should be. ❋ Amberfocus (2008)

She cleaned and fixed pots of soup that we stored in the fridge all week: turkey chili that looked like dog food, soups thick as paint, chicken noodle with strands of thready meat. ❋ Leslie Jamison (2010)

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