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词汇 thready
释义 thready
adjective
uk /ˈθred.i/ us /ˈθred.i/

threadyadjective (LIKE THREADS)


like or consisting of thin threads:
The caramel has a thready texture at this stage of the process.
The baby was tottering about on her thready legs.
The pieces of meat looked rather thready.
He had a thready little ginger beard.
The walls were covered with thin cracks and patterns of thready lines.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Textiles: describing words
billowy
bonded
breathable
brushed
clingy
floaty
fluted
gauzy
handknit
handknitted
multi-ply
nubby
quilting
ribby
ruched
water-repellent
waterproof
weatherproof
woollen
woolly

threadyadjective (WEAK)


If a person's heartbeat(= the regular sound that the heart makes) is thready, it is so weak that it is hard to hear it:
I could just make out the thready beat of his failing heart.
Her pulse was thready and intermittent.
A thready voice has no strength or power:
Charles replied in a thready voice.
He sang in a thready tenor.
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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
acidosis
acquired agammaglobulinemia
adult-onset diabetes
afib
agammaglobulinemia
anaemic
apoplexy
clot-busting
coarctation of the aorta
congenital erythropoietic porphyria
congestive heart failure
coronary heart disease
decompression sickness
furred
MEN1 syndrome
MGUS
mini-stroke
mitral
monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance
toxaemia

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Weakness and vulnerability
Describing qualities of sound

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