thready

English

Etymology

thread +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdi

Adjective

thready (comparative threadier, superlative threadiest)

1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
2. (of a pulse) weak.
   • 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329:

     A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.

Anagrams

• hydrate