thready

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. weak.
    — A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.

词形变化

threadier comparative threadiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
threadily threadiness
相关词
threaden

词源

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