1. Consisting of or containing string or strings
   "The stringy meat was tough to chew"
    
2. Lean and sinewy
   "The stringy marathon runner had incredible endurance";
   - wiry
    
3. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
   "The stringy steak was sent back to the kitchen";
   - fibrous, sinewy, unchewable
    
4. Forming viscous or glutinous threads
   "The honey had a stringy consistency";
   - ropy, ropey, thready

Derived forms: stringiest, stringier

See also: insubstantial, lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thick, thin, tough, unreal, unsubstantial