thinnish
- adjective
- /ˈθɪnɪʃ/
- Informal
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delgadillo
- Soft-textured, thinnish blond hair that seemed to hold no long-term lease on his smallish head.
Examples
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His thinnish gray hair was slightly disheveled, giving him an air of neglect.
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The pinto beans here are a slightly lumpy, thinnish mash that complements the dish well.
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It's so soft and like kind of thin, but kind of not thin.
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Pittman, a smallish, thinnish, sharp-faced man with ash-gray hair and soft, strabismic brown eyes, lives here with his wife, Lois, and Mickey, a white pit bull.
Fiction book (1997) -
Lois had to strain a little over this because Lucy was so blond, with translucent skin and large blue eyes like a doll's, and Lois was nothing out of the ordinary, just a tallish, thinnish, brownish person with freckles.
Fiction book (1990) -
Lois was a tallish, thinnish woman with freckles, standing out among her friends.
Synonyms
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Not thick from side to side, for example a line or a slice
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Very thin and weak, like a light mist
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Faint and not clear, like a weak memory or light outline
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Thin and watery, like a sauce or paint that does not stick
Antonyms
How Thin
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Morphology
Etymology
The word thinnish comes from the simple word thin plus the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'a little'. So thinnish means 'a bit thin' and is used for things like soup, a voice, or an idea that are not fully thin but a little thin.