thready
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛdi
Adjective[edit]
thready (comparative threadier, superlative threadiest)
- Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
- (of a pulse) weak.
- 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329:
- A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.
Related terms[edit]
- threaden (“made of thread”)