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Synonyms for thinly

Grammar : Adv
Spell : thin
Phonetic Transcription : θɪn

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Définition of thinly

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.
  • As in lightly : adv gently, effortlessly
Example sentences :
  • The country was thinly populated, and the houses we saw were poor and mean.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The sky was dull and leaden, and cindery flakes of snow were thinly falling.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • Divide the pastry into two portions, and roll them out as thinly as possible.
  • Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison
  • The impudence and thinly veiled hostility in the man's tone were unmistakable.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • Thus the Pope's summons, with a menace that was all too thinly veiled.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
  • His forehead, however, was high and thinly covered with sandy hair.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 » by Various
  • This would bring them to the level of the water, now thinly covered with ice.
  • Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
  • She was but thinly wrapped, and shivered so that I put my coat around her.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • One or two deserted or thinly populated villages were passed.
  • Extract from : « Through Three Campaigns » by G. A. Henty
  • And yet the crowd was comparatively a small one, the colony then being so thinly settled.
  • Extract from : « Dulcibel » by Henry Peterson

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