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Antonyms for thinnest

Grammar : Adj
Spell : thin
Phonetic Transcription : θɪn

Definition of thinnest

Origin :
  • Old English þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from Proto-Germanic *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. West Frisian ten, Middle Low German dunne, Dutch dun, Old High German dunni, German dünn, Old Norse þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of root *ten- "stretch" (cf. Latin tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
  • These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre. [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]
  • Thin-skinned is attested from 1590s; the figurative sense of "touchy" is from 1670s.
  • adj fine, light, slender
  • adj transparent, fine
  • adj deficient, weak
  • adj diluted
Example sentences :
  • It was thick and soft with sheet after sheet of thinnest paper.
  • Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
  • Looking down I saw beside me the thinnest kitten I ever beheld.
  • Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow
  • It is, however, composed of the thinnest vapours imaginable.
  • Extract from : « The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) » by J. Arthur Thomson
  • It spreads over the surface in the thinnest film that can be imagined.
  • Extract from : « Diggers in the Earth » by Eva March Tappan
  • Nearly all were half-clad, or wearing only the thinnest of garments.
  • Extract from : « Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons » by Homer B. Sprague
  • They accept the thinnest gilt, the poorest pinchbeck, for gold.
  • Extract from : « Modern Women and What is Said of Them » by Anonymous
  • He ran his greedy eyes over them, searching for the thinnest ones.
  • Extract from : « Peter and Wendy » by James Matthew Barrie
  • This observation cannot be made except in the thinnest hives.
  • Extract from : « New observations on the natural history of bees » by Francis Huber
  • They had traversed most of the way and were close to the studio of Chios, where the troops were thinnest.
  • Extract from : « Saronia » by Richard Short
  • Two worlds, the higher and the lower, separated by the thinnest of partitions.
  • Extract from : « Over the Teacups » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Synonyms for thinnest

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