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Definition of thready : 1. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
2. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

Synonyms:

ropey, filiform, ropy, sinewy, unchewable, filamentlike

stringy, filamentous, threadlike, wiry, filamentary, flossy, fibrous, fibroid

Usage examples:

• Where the bridge abutments projected, the thready current of the San Pedro collected and formed quite a deep pool. - "The Boy Scouts On The Range", Lieut. Howard Payson.
• The town, with its church towers and gas chimneys, sloped away from it; vessels thronged the harbour; and a long weird- looking thready suspension- bridge spanned the broad tide- river to East Ewmouth, the village fast growing into a suburb. - "The Pillars of the House, V1", Charlotte M. Yonge.
• These surface plants, which resemble floating cabbages with fine thready roots, like a human beard of sixteen inches in length, form dense masses which are very difficult to clear Our guides are useless, as we cannot depend upon their contradictory statements. - "Ismailia", Samuel W. Baker.