Synonyms for ropey
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Stringy
thick, stringy, slimy, sticky, clammy, glutinous, viscous, viscid, tenacious, adhesive, mucilaginous, thready, gluey, pasty, gelatinous, gummy, slabby
2. Poor
poor, sub-standard, inferior, second-rate, rough, poorly, sickly, shabby, under the weather, out of sorts, ill, unwell, lousy, ailing, indisposed
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
- adj. 2
Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
Related words
- Word family
- ropiness
- Other spellings
- ropy
Example sentences
- sticky This sticky tape is no good – it keeps coming off.
- slimy The creature extended its slimy hands to Damiano.
- clammy At the end, all you get is a clammy handshake.
By length
- 3 letters
- ill1
- 4 letters
- poor1
- 5 letters
- thick1, rough1, lousy2, slimy2, gummy2, pasty, gluey, bingy
- 6 letters
- poorly2, sticky2, shabby2, unwell2, ailing2, sickly2, clammy2, viscid, slabby
- 7 letters
- viscous2, stringy2, thready
- 8 letters
- inferior4, adhesive3
- 9 letters
- tenacious3, glutinous
- 10 letters
- gelatinous4, indisposed
- 12 letters
- mucilaginous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lousy2 = 2 syllables).