Thin in diameter; resembling a thread.

synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready.

Roget 205: filamentous, filamentiferous^†, filaceous^†, filiform^†; fibrous, fibrillous^†; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform^†; funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform^†; flagelliform^†; hairy etc. (rough) 256; taeniate^†, taeniform^†, taenioid^†; venose^†, venous.    ... show more

Roget 256: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose^†, rugous^†; knurly^†; asperous^†, crisp, salebrous^†, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth^†, roughhewn^†; craggy, cragged; crankling^†, scraggy; prickly etc. (sharp) 253; arborescent etc. 242^†; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous^†; laciniate^†, laciniform^†, laciniose^†; pappose^†; pileous^†, pilose^†; trichogenous^†, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^†, crinite^†; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^†, bearded, pilous^†, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^†; setous^†, setose^†, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.    downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate^†, lanated^†; lanuginous^†, lanuginose^†; tomentose^†; fluffy.    ... show more

Polish: nitkowaty