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What is the adjective for string?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs string, stringify and stringize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

stringy
  1. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
  2. (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
  3. (programming) Resembling or involving text strings.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. filamentous, threadlike, thready, fibrous, long, ropy, wirelike, wiry, fibrillar, capilliform, filamentary, fibrillose, filar, capillaceous, straggly, straggling, lanky, rangy, gangling, spindly, skinny, thin, gangly, spare, scrawny, bony, gaunt, angular, spindling, skeletal, emaciated, lank, reedy, size-zero, raw-boned, thin as a rake, lean, leggy, tall, slim, long-legged, slender, scraggy, rawboned, long-limbed, beanpole, skin-and-bones, gawky, weedy … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “American cloth was a little like vinyl, except that it had a stringy fabric backing.”
      “A thin zombie-like man with yellow sallow skin, long stringy hair, and bloodshot eyes stared at them.”
      “The door of the caravan was pushed open and a stringy boy wearing flip-flops, shorts, and an oversized bright blue T-shirt emerged.”
stringlike
  1. Resembling string or a piece of string.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The heat and the continued enzymatic action of rennin cause the protein to fuse into stringlike filaments, making the curd denser.”
stringback
  1. (attributive) stringbacks
stringed
  1. Having strings.
stringless
  1. Without string.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Cook until tender two cups green, stringless beans and three or four small new onions, in boiling salted water.”
      “String beans of the variety known as Tender Green are stringless, extra large, and will melt in the mouth even when the pods are five inches long.”
      “We've been experimenting with yellow wax beans, purple dwarf beans, purple tee pee, golden tee pee and our best stringless runner beans, white lady.”
stringier
  1. comparative form of stringy: more stringy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. threadier, longer, more filamentous, more threadlike, more fibrous, ropier, more wirelike, wirier, stragglier, lankier, rangier, spindlier, skinnier, thinner, ganglier, sparer, scrawnier, bonier, gaunter, lanker, reedier, more gangling, more angular, more spindling, more skeletal, more emaciated, leaner, leggier, taller, slimmer, more long-legged, slenderer, scraggier, gawkier, weedier, meagrer, twiggier, meagerer, more wasted, more anorexic, ungainlier, more attenuated, more underweight, more undernourished, more underfed, more starved, svelter, slighter, more cadaverous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Saumur and Saumur Champigny can be a bit stringier in their youth, but often age better than any other Loire reds.”
      “In second place was the white flesh accompanied by the stringier but slightly sweeter cabbage ends.”
      “As he speaks he sorts a tray of beans, discarding stringier ones.”
stringiest
  1. superlative form of stringy: most stringy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. threadiest, longest, most filamentous, most threadlike, most fibrous, ropiest, wiriest, most wirelike, straggliest, lankiest, rangiest, spindliest, skinniest, thinnest, gangliest, sparest, scrawniest, boniest, gauntest, lankest, reediest, most gangling, most angular, most spindling, most skeletal, most emaciated, leanest, leggiest, tallest, slimmest, most long-legged, slenderest, scraggiest, gawkiest, weediest, meagrest, twiggiest, meagerest, most wasted, most anorexic, ungainliest, most attenuated, most underweight, most undernourished, most underfed, most starved, sveltest, slightest, most cadaverous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Take the driest, stringiest cut of meat and turn it into a stroganoff.”
      “While Fatah is effortlessly co-opted, Hamas remains confined by ideological standards and the stringiest political space.”
strung
  1. simple past tense and past participle of string
  2. Synonyms:
      3. threaded, thrid, thridden, joined, linked, concatenated, laced, looped, tied, fastened, knit, bound, tied up, hitched, secured, leashed, lashed, fettered, connected, tethered, strapped, knitted, chained, locked, paired, banded, annexed, trussed, clamped, interlinked, hooked, clasped, entwined, bounden, coupled, shackled, bonded, fixed, fixt, affixed, interconnected, stuck, yoked, welded, appended, bridged, sticked, pinioned, glued, spliced … more
stringing
  1. present participle of string
  2. Synonyms:
      3. threading, joining, linking, concatenating, lacing, looping, tying, fastening, connecting, hitching, knitting, locking, pairing, annexing, clamping, interlinking, hooking, clasping, entwining, lashing, leashing, tying up, tiing together, coupling, affixing, fixing, bonding, bridging, sticking, welding, interconnecting, appending, yoking, glueing, binding, splicing, conjoining, gluing, chaining, teaming, securing, unifying, adhering, catenating, adding, assembling, dovetailing, juxtaposing, bracketing, mating … more
stringified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of stringify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. converted, encoded, formatted, serialised, serialized
stringifying
  1. present participle of stringify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. converting, encoding, formatting, serialising, serializing
stringized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of stringize
stringizing
  1. present participle of stringize
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