Definitions for thready

thready thread·y

Spelling: [thred-ee]
IPA: /ˈθrɛd i/

Thready is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in thready (adehrty).

Definitions for thready

adjective

  1. consisting of or resembling a thread or threads; fibrous; filamentous.
  2. stringy or viscid, as a liquid.
  3. (of the pulse) thin and feeble.
  4. (of sound, the voice, etc.) lacking fullness; weak; feeble.

Origin of thready

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at thread, -y1

Examples for thready

The mouth and tongue become coated and swollen, the throat thickens and the voice sinks to a thready whisper.

If he had hurt the man badly, the pulse would have been thready and unsteady.

For some weeks previous to his death, his pulse had become slow and thready, 36 in the minute.

It is ushered in by chills, elevation of the temperature; the pulse becomes rapid, thready, and imperceptible.

Insipid and thready when it's cooked, you know, and has to have a lot of salt and pepper and butter to make it go down at all.

He had shooting pains and tingling of the limbs, dimness of vision, and quick, thready pulse.

In all the cases, as the disease advanced, the pulse came down to a very unfrequent and thready beat.

It rose in volume, sank to a broken and individual sequence of crashes, rose again in a chorus, grew thin and thready again.

The gigantic squatter removed his pipe from his mouth and smoothed the thready white beard, straggling over his chin.

The pulse grows more frequent and thready; aphthous deposits appear on the inside of the mouth and pharynx.

Word Value for thready
Scrable

14

Words with friends

12

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