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wiry

/ˈwaɪ(ə)ɹi/

wiry adjective: resembling wire.

Adjective

wiry (comparative wirier, superlative wiriest)

  1. Resembling wire.
    • My hair was very wiry in my teens.
  2. Thin, muscular and flexible.
    • Don't fight him. He may be small, but he's wiry.

wiry meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

wiry in Tamil

கம்பியான

wiry in Urdu

گچھے دار, طاقتور, تار دار

wiry in Bengali

তারের মতো দেখতে, রোগা, পেশিবহুল এবং নমনীয়

wiry in Malayalam

rough, sinewy, athletic
കമ്പിപോലെയുള്ള, കമ്പിപോലെ നേർത്ത, മെലിഞ്ഞതെങ്കിലും ബലവും ശക്തിയുമുള്ള, ബലമുള്ള, സ്നായുബലമുള്ള, കരുത്തുള്ള
strong, coarse, rough
പരുപരുത്ത, പരുക്കനായ, ബലമുള്ള, ഉറപ്പുള്ള, ചുരുണ്ട, തരംഗിതമായ
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wiry in Kannada
ತಂತಿಯಿಂದಾದ, ತೆಳುವಾದರೂ ಶಕ್ತಿವಂತನಾದ, ತೆಳುವಾದರೂ ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾದ, ತೆಳುವಾದರೂ ಗಟ್ಟಿದೇಹದ

Examples of wiry in a sentence

  • There was a wiry shooter in a hallway off the main floor aiming.
  • With a wiry build and saturnine face, he appeared to be younger than forty, too.
  • It was sort of small and wiry with a slightly oversized head, Gollumesque if you will.

All 23 example sentences with wiry

Forms of wiry

comparativewirier
superlativewiriest

Origin of wiry

From wire + -y.

Words formed from wiry

Words that rhyme with wiry

Questions about wiry

What does wiry mean?
Wiry means resembling wire.
What is wiry in Tamil?
Wiry in Tamil is கம்பியான. See Wiry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wiry?
Wiry is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wiry?
Wiry is pronounced /ˈwaɪ(ə)ɹi/.

Words near wiry in the dictionary

  1. Wirtshaus
  2. Wirtshäuser
  3. Wirtz
  4. Wirtzes
  5. Wiru
  6. wiry
  7. Wirö
  8. wis
  9. Wis.
  10. WISA
  11. wisard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiry (page history and authors); wiry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wiry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wiry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wiry (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wiry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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