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発音

• 韻: -ɛdi

形容詞

thready (comparative threadier, superlative threadiest)

1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
   • 1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Water Betony⸝ or Broune-wurte”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Sundry Sortes of Herbes and Plantes), page 44:

     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. (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.

派生語

関連する語

• threaden (“made of thread”)

アナグラム

• hydrate