"thready" meaning in English

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      "form": "threadier",
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      "form": "threadiest",
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        "Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous."
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          "text": "A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.",
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        "weak."
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        "(of a pulse) weak."
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      "rhymes": "-ɛdi"
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      "form": "threadier",
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