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thready

thready adjective: of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.

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

thready meaning in Bengali

thready in Bengali

সুতার মতো, সুতার সদৃশ, তন্তুময়, দুর্বল

Forms of thready

comparativethreadier
superlativethreadiest

Origin of thready

From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.

Words formed from thready

Words that rhyme with thready

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Questions about thready

What does thready mean?
Thready means of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
What is thready in Bengali?
Thready in Bengali is সুতার মতো, সুতার সদৃশ, তন্তুময়. See Thready meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is thready?
Thready is an adjective.

Words near thready in the dictionary

  1. threadtails
  2. threadwork
  3. threadworks
  4. threadworm
  5. threadworms
  6. thready
  7. threap
  8. threaped
  9. threaping
  10. Threapland
  11. Threaplands

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