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attenuated
adjective as in adulterated
adjective as in diluted
adjective as in emaciated
adjective as in gaunt
adjective as in lank
Weak matches
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
adjective as in lanky
adjective as in narrow
Strong matches
adjective as in rare
Strongest matches
adjective as in skeletal
adjective as in subtle
adjective as in tenuous
adjective as in thin
Strong matches
adjective as in thin
Strongest matches
adjective as in twiggy
Weak matches
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
adjective as in washy
adjective as in wasted
adjective as in waterish
adjective as in weedy
Weak matches
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- wizened
Example Sentences
However, it’s difficult to produce live-attenuated vaccines for more complicated pathogens, like bacteria and fungi.
It could become more deadly or it could attenuate and disappear, like the common cold.
Live attenuated vaccines for measles and others have traditionally always been the most powerful and effective vaccines, also in their ability to protect you for the long term, which is a very important factor.
That means that it’s the virus which has been attenuated, which means the harmful properties have been removed, but it’s the whole virus.
An attenuated virus can still be dangerous for people with compromised immune systems.
We live in an era of shortened attention spans and attenuated half-lives for products, companies, and business models.
His cropped leather jackets with their dolman sleeves were perfectly proportioned over his attenuated, back-slit skirts.
Such of the sound waves is pass through the second nick will become attenuated in charging the chamber B.
Beneath those robes must have been a body as attenuated as a skeleton, as different as an insect's from man's.
Dr. Henry Brodrick was a tall, attenuated John, with a slightly, ever so slightly receding chin.
Sahib, what could my attenuated and wasted frame do against men who had suffered no misery like mine?
Harvey glanced rather contemptuously at the lean, attenuated arm that the other displayed, where he had rolled his cuffs back.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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