stringy adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: {wiry}] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: {fibrous}, {sinewy}, {unchewable}] 3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: {ropy}, {ropey}, {thready}] [also: {stringiest}, {stringier}] stringier See {stringy}