thinly

Speech parts

1. thinly - Adjective

2. thinly - Adverb

Meaning

In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

thin lightly easily slightly fine poorly badly barely subtle moderately narrowly sparse sparsely gently weakly
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Antonyms

thickly thick densely intensively steeply amply
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Phrases with the word

thinly sliced crisp toast thinly-veiled thinly populated thinly sliced

Examples

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us. Chris Hedges

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. Shunroku Hata

How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint. Henry Rollins

The literary James Bond is a creation of prewar London club-land: upper-crust, snobbish, manipulative and cruel in his relationships with women, with a thinly veiled sadomasochistic streak and a coldly ruthless attitude to his opponents that verges on the psychopathic. Charles Stross

My contention is that the psychiatric perspective on homosexuality is but a thinly disguised replica of the religious perspective which it displaced, and that efforts to "treat” this kind of conduct medically are but thinly disguised methods for suppressing it. Thomas Szasz

Honest poverty is thinly sown. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

thinktanker thinky thinliness thinly populated thinly sliced crisp toast thinly-veiled