thready
Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
Adjective
- 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...
- weak.
- A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present. - 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329:
Origin
From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.