Thready
[θredi]
Definition
(a.) Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, thread.
Checker: Marie
Examples
- Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue, said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Marie