Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thready

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English

Syllables: thready
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.

adj

Example Sentences

"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."
"A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *thredi
Suffix: thread

Inflected Forms

threadier (comparative) threadiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

threadily threadiness

Frequently Paired Words

threaden

Synonyms

filamentous filiform filamentlike threadlike ropy ropey stringy

Rhymes With

already ready steady eddie teddy freddie eddy freddy reddy heady unsteady pedi

Questions

What does thready mean?: Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
Where does thready come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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