(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy syrup; ropy lees.

adhesive amylaceous below par capillary cartilaginous chewy cirrose cirrous clabbered clammy clotted coagulated cohesive coriaceous curdled deficient doughy durable fibered fibroid fibrous filamentous flagelliform flossy funicular gaumy gelatinous glairy gluelike gluey glutenous glutinose glutinous gooey gossamery gristly grumous gumbo gumbolike gumlike gummous gummy hairlike hairy hard hardy heavy ill inadequate indifferent inferior inspissated jelled jellied jellylike lasting leatherlike leathery ligamental mediocre mucilaginous out of sorts pasty poor poorly questionable resistant rough sickly silky sinewy sketchy slabby slimy slithery starchy sticky stiff stodgy stringy strong stubborn substandard syrupy tacky taeniate taeniform tenacious thick thickened threadlike thready tough tough as leather tremelloid tremellose under the weather unsatisfactory untiring unwell vigorous viscid viscose viscous wiry