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thinly

thinly

24 1.2
In a thin layer or spread out lightly
  • adverb
  • /ˈθɪnli/
translation icon : escasamente
  • You slice the tomatoes thinly.
  • thinly spread
  • thinly populated
  • thinly disguised

My advice is to thinly sliced a little piece of a mice.

Examples

  • Inside, cigarette smoke floats thinly in front of the driver's face, like wispy gray cotton candy.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • An elegant green salad is on another plate, covered with thinly sliced parmesan cheese.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The difficulty was that the world of today was thinly populated.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Those are pretty thinly sliced, right?

  • Growing up, my grandmother would fry it thinly and make sandwiches out of it.

    Blog text (1)

  • When Paulie got closer, he could see that there was water flowing thinly over the face of the rock.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • In the dairy products section of the store, steam lifted thinly from open refrigerated units.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • My favorite way to eat it is raw, thinly sliced, and lightly salted.

    Blog text (22)

  • So I've got some kind of thinly sliced red chilies.

  • You should cut the cucumbers thinly to make the salad look more appealing.

Synonyms

lightly
vsthinly
86 1.0

In a gentle way using little force

describes not thick coverage or low density rather than low physical force
sparsely
vsthinly
15 4.6

With few people or things in a large area

focuses on forming a not thick layer rather than wide spacing

Antonyms

thickly
7 1.3

In a dense way that forms a thick layer

How Thin

sparsely
15 4.6
thinly
24 1.2
thickly
7 1.3

Surface Forms

thinly positive
thinner comparative
thinnest superlative

Morphology

thinly = thin (transparent) = thin + ly

Formed by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' from the adjective 'thin', so the physical meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Thinly comes from the simple English word thin, meaning 'not thick', plus the ending -ly that makes an adverb. So doing something thinly means doing it in a 'not thick' or 'spread out' way, like slicing vegetables very fine or spreading a small layer of butter.