thready

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdi

Adjective

thready (comparative threadier, superlative threadiest)

1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
2. (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

• threaden (“made of thread”)

Anagrams

• hydrate