What is another word for thinnest?

Pronunciation: [θˈɪnəst] (IPA)

The word "thinnest" can be defined as having the smallest distance between two surfaces, or having a small cross-sectional area. There are several synonyms to describe this characteristic, including slender, slim, skinny, lean, fine, and narrow. These words can be applied to various objects or subjects, such as a thin sheet of paper, a slender tree branch, a slim figure, a skinny pair of jeans, a lean cut of meat, a fine line on a drawing, and a narrow bridge. By using synonyms for "thinnest," we can add variety and detail to our descriptions, making our communication more precise and engaging.

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Usage examples for Thinnest

The coat is thickest over the posterior part of the eyeball, and is thinnest a little behind its junction with the cornea.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Of course, the blood pipes into which the food is sucked through the walls of the food tube, and those in the lung, through which the oxygen is breathed, as well as those in the thumb through which food is taken to the muscle-cells, have the tiniest and thinnest walls imaginable.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
The thinnest I could get at home feel very thick and hot here in this hot November.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch

Famous quotes with Thinnest

  • While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
    Charles Osgood
  • Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practice anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.
    Derren Brown
  • Then cricket sing thy song, or answer mine Thine whispers blame, but mine has naught but praises It matters not. — Behold the autumn goes, The Shadow grows, The moments take hold of eternity; Even while we stop to wrangle or repine Our lives are gone Like thinnest mist, Like yon escaping colour in the tree: — Rejoice! rejoice! whilst yet the hours exist Rejoice or mourn, and let the world swing on Unmoved by Cricket-song of thee or me.
    Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
  • A poet of my kind Skates on the thinnest ice.
    Edward Lucie-Smith
  • "Tall-over six feet-and one of the thinnest men I’ve ever seen. He must be about fifty now and his hair was almost white when I knew him.Usually needs a haircut, ragged brindle mustache, bites his fingernails." I pushed the dog away to reach for my drink.
    Dashiell Hammett

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