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Stringy vs Stringily - What's the difference?

stringy | stringily |

As an adjective stringy

is comprised of, or resembling, string or strings.

As an adverb stringily is

in a stringy way.

stringy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings.
  • :
  • (label) .
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy , with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

    • Synonyms

    * fibrous * filamentous

    stringily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a stringy way.
  • * 1903 , McClure's Magazine
    • Her complexion was of an unhealthy yellowish hue, and a few wisps of the same yellowish-hued hair straggled stringily down her thin temples.