ropy
/ˈroʊpi/
adjective
- Having a sticky, stringy, or viscous texture, like thin ropes or threads.
- The old glue had become ropy and difficult to spread.
- The melted cheese was ropy and stretched as she lifted her fork.
- The sauce turned ropy after sitting out too long.
- Of poor quality; inferior or shoddy.
- The hotel was cheap but the service was ropy.
- The movie had a ropy plot that made no sense.
- He gave a ropy performance in the play, forgetting his lines.
- Resembling a rope in form; long, thick, and twisted.
- The roots of the tree grew in ropy coils above the ground.
- The climber grabbed a ropy vine to pull himself up.
- Her hair was tangled into ropy strands after the storm.