Thesaurus results for STRINGY

stringy

adjective

ˈstriŋ-ē

Definition of stringy next

as in fibrous

resembling or having the texture of a mass of strings stringy hair that clearly needs a good washing

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Recent Examples of stringy The two women haven’t spoken in 10 years when Mother Mary shows up on Sam Anselm’s doorstep with sad eyes and stringy hair, like a lost dog who got caught in the rain, and her spurned BFF leaps at the chance to make the most of her leverage. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026 They’re made of pairs and trios of quarks that are bound together by stringy trails of gluons. —

Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026 Use a bit of hair powder to keep your bangs from appearing stringy. —

Krista Carter, InStyle, 27 Jan. 2026 It's typically dried rather than eaten raw, with a brittle shell and stringy pulp that's traditionally cracked open and steeped to make a mildly sweet, herbal tea. —

Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stringy

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fibrous

Adjective

One ecological version of that idea holds that grass once helped wild canids clear intestinal worms—the fibrous strands wrap around the worms and carry them out in the droppings.

— Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
These tubes serve as stabilizing cables that allow flexible fibrous trunks to withstand hurricane-force winds.

— Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 4 June 2026