Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, thin |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, attenuate, attenuated, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine, flimsy, gossamer, insignificant, insubstantial, light, narrow, nebulous, questionable, rare, rarefied, reedy, shaky, sketchy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, twiggy |
| Antonyms: | healthy, significant, stable, strong, substantial, thick |
| Main Entry: | ethereal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate, heavenly |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer, impalpable, insubstantial, intangible, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime, subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, vaporous, vapory |
| Antonyms: | earthly, indelicate, worldly |
| Main Entry: | evanescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transient |
| Synonyms: | brief, disappearing, fading, fleeting, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, tenuous, vanishing |
| Main Entry: | exiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scanty |
| Synonyms: | bare, confined, diminutive, inadequate, limited, little, meager, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, poor, restricted, skimpy, slender, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, tiny |
| Antonyms: | plenty |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having little effect on senses |
| Synonyms: | aside, bated, bland, bleached, blurred, breathless, deadened, deep, delicate, dim, distant, dull, dusty, faded, faltering, far-off, feeble, gentle, hazy, hoarse, hushed, ill-defined, imperceptible, inaudible, indistinct, lenient, light, low, low-pitched, mild, moderate, muffled, murmuring, muted, muttering, obscure, out of earshot, padded, pale, piano, quiet, remote, shadowy, slight, smooth, soft, softened, soothing, stifled, subdued, tenuous, thin, unclear, vague, wan, weak, whispered |
| Notes: | faint (verb) means to pass out from weakness or to lose consciousness - faint (adjective) means barely perceptible or lacking clarity or distinctness; feint (noun) means any distracting or deceptive maneuver - feint (verb) means to deceive by a mock action |
| Antonyms: | clear, distinct, heavy, loud, strong |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discriminating, exact |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, acute, clear, critical, cryptic, delicate, distinct, enigmatic, esoteric, fastidious, fine-spun, hairline, hairsplitting, intelligent, keen, minute, nice, obscure, petty, precise, pure, quick, recondite, refined, sensitive, sharp, sterling, strict, subtle, tasteful, tenuous, trifling, unadulterated, unpolluted |
| Antonyms: | awkward, crude, uncouth, undiscriminating, unrefined |
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | impalpable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intangible, unsubstantial |
| Synonyms: | airy, delicate, disembodied, fine, imperceptible, imponderable, imprecise, inappreciable, incorporeal, indiscernible, indistinct, insensible, insubstantial, nebulous, shadowy, tenuous, thin, unapparent, unobservable, unperceivable, vague |
| Antonyms: | believeable, palpable, perceptible, substantial, tangible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | inconspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, unnoticeable |
| Synonyms: | camouflaged, concealed, dim, faint, hidden, indistinct, insignificant, low-key, low-profile, modest, muted, ordinary, plain, quiet, retiring, secretive, shy, soft-pedalled, subtle, tenuous, unassuming, unemphatic, unobtrusive, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | conspicuous, exposed, noticeable, open, unhidden |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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