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attenuated
CIDE DICTIONARY
attenuated, a. [L. attenuatus, p. p.].
- Made thin or slender. [1913 Webster]
- Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
attenuated
Sanforized, abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, bated, belittled, boyish, cadaverous, consumed, contracted, corky, corpselike, curtailed, cut, dainty, decreased, deflated, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminished, dissipated, downy, dried-up, dropped, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, eroded, ethereal, fallen, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, haggard, hollow-eyed, insubstantial, jejune, lacy, less, lesser, light, lower, lowered, marantic, marasmic, miniaturized, misty, papery, parched, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, pubescent, puny, rare, rarefied, reduced, refined, retrenched, satin, satiny, scaled-down, sear, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, silky, skeletal, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smaller, smooth, starved, starveling, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tabetic, tabid, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, uncompact, uncompressed, underfed, undernourished, unsubstantial, vague, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, wasted, wasted away, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakened, weazened, weazeny, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, wraithlikeROGET THESAURUS
attenuated
Thinness
N narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.For further exploring for "attenuated" in Webster Dictionary Online