Synonyms of the word

ropey

• adj. Alternative spelling of ropy.

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

ropy

• adj. Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
• adj. Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
• adj. (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.

stringy

• adj. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
• adj. (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
• adj. (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.

thick

• adj. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
• adj. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
• adj. Heavy in build; thickset.
• adj. Densely crowded or packed.
• adj. Having a viscous consistency.
• adj. Abounding in number.
• adj. Impenetrable to sight.
• adj. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
• adj. (informal) Stupid.
• adj. (informal) Friendly or intimate.
• adj. Deep, intense, or profound.
• adj. (Britain, dated) troublesome; unreasonable.
• adj. (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
• adv. In a thick manner.
• adv. Thickly.
• adv. Frequently; in great numbers.
• n. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
• n. A thicket.
• n. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To thicken.

thready

• adj. Of, resembling of capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
• adj. (of a pulse) weak.