thready
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”)