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Definition of reedy in English: reedyadjectivereedier, reediest ˈriːdiˈridi 1(of a sound or voice) high and thin in tone. （声音，乐器）尖声的 弗朗科尖利的嗓音。 Example sentencesExamples - French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons.
- Representing the tour was H. Bartow Farr III, who is 56, looks 10 years younger, speaks carefully without being showy, and with a reedy tone in his voice.
- He sings in his usual reedy voice, sounding all but lost in the swirl.
- He's got a high, reedy voice, that paradoxically creates a special strength in its vulnerability.
- The one stumbling block is perhaps Graham's voice. It remains as reedy and weedy as ever, giving the impression of the love-lorn loser that this critic suspects he rather likes to play up to.
- Charters was always played by Basil Radford, a heavy-set actor with a moustache and a scar, and Caldicott by Naunton Wayne, a small man with a reedy voice and a perpetually worried expression.
- Their cries were like the whispers of the night: reedy sounds which almost served to disguise the location of the maker.
- Jorma Silvasti, the tenor, has a bright, slightly reedy tone, rather than the big heroic voice required for the fanfare opening of the symphonic version.
- ‘Each man kills the thing he loves,’ sings Moreau in reedy, exhausted tones that recapitulate the inevitable downward trajectory of every star's career.
- Her voice was thin and reedy; her throat clicked drily as she tried to swallow.
- The bore is no wider than that of a clarinet, but the greater length produces an attractive reedy sound.
- As Sally, Alyson Hannigan does an unearthly impression of the young Meg Ryan: complete with pert and self-satisfied little smirk and reedy, weedy voice.
- This guy is speaking in a quick, nervous, reedy sort of voice that makes me think of Woody Allen.
- Perhaps the signs that this movie is some sort of dream are altogether too conspicuous: all three women look like willowy sisters, with their thin faces and reedy voices.
- Simon O'Neill's voice is almost reedy enough to be authentically French, and he is mostly successful at coping with the score's Wagnerian demands without heaviness.
- She has a high-pitched reedy voice that doesn't stretch into the corners of these dark hued songs as much as shimmer above them like an unreliable narrator.
- Countless sounds are utilised, from a harp to a child's toy, while Adem's understated voice is reedy and affecting, belying the fact that he was merely the bass player in Fridge.
- Her voice is annoyingly reedy, with a fast vibrato and intonation slightly under pitch.
- Most of it simply buzzes and squeaks, a reedy clarinet against a rhythm section of cash registers and ticker tape.
- Rogers has one of those thin, reedy voices popular on the radio right now; another producer would probably turn her into a sound effect, the way Lil Jon did with Ciara on ‘Goodies’.
Synonyms slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, svelte, sylphlike, spare, slight weak, faint, feeble, small, soft, low 2(of water or land) full of or edged with reeds. （水域，陆地）长满芦苇的，芦苇围着的 Example sentencesExamples - Swollen with meltwater from the mountains, a stream rushed between reedy banks.
- Somewhere in the reedy wetlands of easternmost England, Britain's tallest and perhaps rarest resident bird is making itself at home, more than four centuries after being forced into exile.
- I really like getting ‘as one’ with a river though, so I like to use a pair of waders and stand in the river in the edge and trot down from that position; generally I choose a weedy or reedy margin to shield my presence from the fish.
- Or perhaps she is a pale Cleopatra, fleeing armor-clad Roman soldiers, finding her way to a reedy marsh and then captured by her own slim reflection.
- Her compassion (a divine quality) leads Pharaoh's daughter to rescue Moses from the reedy water just as Yahweh delivers the Hebrews from the Sea of Reeds.
- Little grebes may be expected in the vicinity of Breydon Water all year; up to 20 breeding pairs occupy reedy dykes at Berney and alongside the south wall.
- The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover.
- A group of rush cabins nestle among canals that drain the reedy marshes into the open water.
- The river down which we are gently chugging is clear and fairly shallow, about 200 metres wide, edged with reedy dunes, leading back to pine-forested gentle slopes.
3(of a person) tall and thin. （人）瘦长的 瘦长的12岁少年。 Example sentencesExamples - He is so thin and reedy you worried for his balance when the wind picked up, but he moves with soft, sumptuous delicacy.
- Didn't we all know that Hepburn, as slender and reedy as she was all her life, was made of solid oak?
- For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top.
- A tall, reedy blonde girl stood in front of her, chewing on a piece of her peroxide hair.
- He did not at all fit that period's physical stereotype of the dandy as a slight, reedy wisp of a thing.
- Just after she checked in, a thin, reedy man with graying hair to match his gray wool suit approached her.
Derivativesnoun Making it worse is the fact that whenever the band forgets itself and goes into Dire Straits mode, his voice starts edging towards reediness. Example sentencesExamples - In spite of all the ‘reediness,’ my ears and brain never tired of listening to this music.
- ‘Bees in Trees’ is a lovely piece, largely because of the warm reediness in the saxophone sound.
Rhymesbeady, greedy, needy, seedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy Definition of reedy in US English: reedyadjectiveˈrēdēˈridi 1(of a voice, sound, or instrument) high and thin in tone. （声音，乐器）尖声的 弗朗科尖利的嗓音。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps the signs that this movie is some sort of dream are altogether too conspicuous: all three women look like willowy sisters, with their thin faces and reedy voices.
- The bore is no wider than that of a clarinet, but the greater length produces an attractive reedy sound.
- He's got a high, reedy voice, that paradoxically creates a special strength in its vulnerability.
- Their cries were like the whispers of the night: reedy sounds which almost served to disguise the location of the maker.
- She has a high-pitched reedy voice that doesn't stretch into the corners of these dark hued songs as much as shimmer above them like an unreliable narrator.
- Representing the tour was H. Bartow Farr III, who is 56, looks 10 years younger, speaks carefully without being showy, and with a reedy tone in his voice.
- Charters was always played by Basil Radford, a heavy-set actor with a moustache and a scar, and Caldicott by Naunton Wayne, a small man with a reedy voice and a perpetually worried expression.
- Countless sounds are utilised, from a harp to a child's toy, while Adem's understated voice is reedy and affecting, belying the fact that he was merely the bass player in Fridge.
- As Sally, Alyson Hannigan does an unearthly impression of the young Meg Ryan: complete with pert and self-satisfied little smirk and reedy, weedy voice.
- Simon O'Neill's voice is almost reedy enough to be authentically French, and he is mostly successful at coping with the score's Wagnerian demands without heaviness.
- He sings in his usual reedy voice, sounding all but lost in the swirl.
- French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons.
- Rogers has one of those thin, reedy voices popular on the radio right now; another producer would probably turn her into a sound effect, the way Lil Jon did with Ciara on ‘Goodies’.
- This guy is speaking in a quick, nervous, reedy sort of voice that makes me think of Woody Allen.
- Her voice was thin and reedy; her throat clicked drily as she tried to swallow.
- ‘Each man kills the thing he loves,’ sings Moreau in reedy, exhausted tones that recapitulate the inevitable downward trajectory of every star's career.
- Most of it simply buzzes and squeaks, a reedy clarinet against a rhythm section of cash registers and ticker tape.
- Her voice is annoyingly reedy, with a fast vibrato and intonation slightly under pitch.
- Jorma Silvasti, the tenor, has a bright, slightly reedy tone, rather than the big heroic voice required for the fanfare opening of the symphonic version.
- The one stumbling block is perhaps Graham's voice. It remains as reedy and weedy as ever, giving the impression of the love-lorn loser that this critic suspects he rather likes to play up to.
Synonyms slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, svelte, sylphlike, spare, slight weak, faint, feeble, small, soft, low 2(of water or land) full of or edged with reeds. （水域，陆地）长满芦苇的，芦苇围着的 they swam in the reedy lake 他们在芦苇丛生的湖里游泳。 Example sentencesExamples - The river down which we are gently chugging is clear and fairly shallow, about 200 metres wide, edged with reedy dunes, leading back to pine-forested gentle slopes.
- The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover.
- Her compassion (a divine quality) leads Pharaoh's daughter to rescue Moses from the reedy water just as Yahweh delivers the Hebrews from the Sea of Reeds.
- Or perhaps she is a pale Cleopatra, fleeing armor-clad Roman soldiers, finding her way to a reedy marsh and then captured by her own slim reflection.
- A group of rush cabins nestle among canals that drain the reedy marshes into the open water.
- Somewhere in the reedy wetlands of easternmost England, Britain's tallest and perhaps rarest resident bird is making itself at home, more than four centuries after being forced into exile.
- Swollen with meltwater from the mountains, a stream rushed between reedy banks.
- I really like getting ‘as one’ with a river though, so I like to use a pair of waders and stand in the river in the edge and trot down from that position; generally I choose a weedy or reedy margin to shield my presence from the fish.
- Little grebes may be expected in the vicinity of Breydon Water all year; up to 20 breeding pairs occupy reedy dykes at Berney and alongside the south wall.
3(of a person) tall and thin. （人）瘦长的 瘦长的12岁少年。 Example sentencesExamples - Didn't we all know that Hepburn, as slender and reedy as she was all her life, was made of solid oak?
- He did not at all fit that period's physical stereotype of the dandy as a slight, reedy wisp of a thing.
- For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top.
- A tall, reedy blonde girl stood in front of her, chewing on a piece of her peroxide hair.
- Just after she checked in, a thin, reedy man with graying hair to match his gray wool suit approached her.
- He is so thin and reedy you worried for his balance when the wind picked up, but he moves with soft, sumptuous delicacy.
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