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# stringy

adjective (stringy, stringier, stringiest)

«stringy» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Stringy food is full of tough fibres like strings and is hard to chew: stringy meat, stringy celery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m1)
2. Stringy hair is thin, hangs in long straight strands and often looks greasy or untidy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m2)
3. A stringy person is thin with lean, wiry muscles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m3)
4. Stringy also describes anything that stretches into thin strings, like melted cheese. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it describes food and hair; in stories it helps paint a character's looks. In science, fibres in plants like celery make them stringy. Phrases: "stringy cheese", "stringy hair", "stringy beans".

### Examples

- This beef is stringy and hard to chew. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x1)
- Pull the stringy bits off the celery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x2)
- The melted cheese on the pizza was all stringy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x3)
- After swimming, my hair was wet and stringy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x4)
- The old farmer was stringy and strong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x5)
- Runner beans get stringy if you pick them late. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x6)
- Her stringy fringe hung over her eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x7)

### Note

Comparative: stringier, stringiest. Saying someone's hair is stringy is not polite. "String cheese" is a snack made to peel into strings.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «stringy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«stringy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/stringy.html) on Mova free.