| Main Entry: | thinness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slimness |
Synonyms: |
emaciation, gauntness, lankiness, leanness, scrawniness, skinniness, slenderness |
Antonyms: |
avoirdupois, solidity, thickness |
| Main Entry: | thinness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slenderness |
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delicacy, emaciation, fineness, gauntness, inadequacy, incompactness, meagerness, rarity, scantiness, shallowness, slimness, spareness, sparseness, subtilization, subtilty, tenuity |
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fatness |
| Main Entry: | emaciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gauntness |
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anorexia, atrophy, attenuation, boniness, consumption, haggardness, malnutrition, marasmus, skinniness, starvation, tabes, thinness, undernourishment, wasting, wasting away, withering |
| Main Entry: | lightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the state of being light |
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airiness, delicacy, downiness, etherealness, featheriness, fluffiness, sheerness, thinness, volatileness |
| Main Entry: | narrowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a physical restriction |
Synonyms: |
barrier, confinement, impediment, restriction, slimness, thinness |
| Main Entry: | lightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3 |
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| Main Entry: | narrowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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Adjectives: |
angustate, attenuated, barebone, brawn, close, contracted, delicate, décharné, emaciated, extenuated, fastigiate, fine, finespun, gaunt, gracilescent, hatchet, incapacious, lank, lanky, lantern, lean, lean as a rake, long, marcid, meager, narrow, narrowing, peened, rawboned, scant, scanty, shriveled, skin and bone, skinny, slender, slender as a thread, slight, spare, spectral, starved, starveling, tabid, taper, thin, thin as a lath, thin as a wafer, thin as a whipping, unexpanded, weedy, worn to a shadow
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| Concept: | Narrowness. Thinness. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
narrowness; closeness, exility; exiguity (little)., line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein., thinness; tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor., shaving, slip (filament); thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone., middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine., narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering; contraction.
-verbs
be narrow; narrow, taper, contract; render narrow.
-adjectives
narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like (filament) [more]; finespun; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded (expand [more]); slender as a thread., [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny [U.S.], slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed., attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned.
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Antonyms: |
breadth |
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