- stringy, wiry - lean and sinewy
Antonym: fat (indirect, via thin)
- fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable - (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
Antonym: tender (indirect, via tough)
- ropy, ropey, stringy, thready - forming viscous or glutinous threads
Antonym: thin (indirect, via thick)