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threadier

threadier is the comparative form of thready.

Meaning of thready

Adjective

thready (comparative threadier, superlative threadiest)

  1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
    • The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Water Betony⸝ or Broune-wurte”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […]...
  2. weak.
    • A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329

Questions about threadier

What is threadier the comparative form of?
Threadier is the comparative form of thready.

Words near threadier in the dictionary

  1. Threadgill
  2. Threadgills
  3. Threadgold
  4. threadgoldite
  5. Threadgolds
  6. threadier
  7. threadiest
  8. threadily
  9. threadiness
  10. threading
  11. threading the needle

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