Thinly

Definitions: Thinly

Thinly

Adverb

1. Without force or sincere effort; "smiled thinly".

2. Without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin".

3. In a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly".

4. In a widely distributed manner; "thinly overgrown mountainside".

Date "thinly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Synonyms: Thinly

Synonyms: lightly (adv), thin (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: densely (adv), thickly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fewness	Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Thinly

English words defined with "thinly": bread and butter pickle ♦ Glase, Glazing ♦ Infilm ♦ lightly ♦ sashimi. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thinly": black shale ♦ crippleware ♦ floor malting, Frozen Sections ♦ hamada, hamadet, hammada, hammadah, hammadat ♦ nedj ♦ pediplane ♦ rock desert ♦ scamy post, Solenhofen stone, stone desert ♦ Weston photronic cell, wheelerite. (references)

Domain	Usage
Clever	Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Heaven's Face Thinly Veiled: A Book of Spiritual Writing by Women (reference) Philosophie Thinly Clothed, and Other Stories (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The roads were poorly paved, the streets were thinly built up.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Above the little dome of the firelight the summer stars shone thinly, and the heat of the day was gradually withdrawing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Zimbabwe	Employing intimidation, violence and kidnapping directed at mostly white management, the invasions, other than attempting to win the hearts and minds of urban workers, were in most cases thinly veiled extortion attempts. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Thinly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thinly" is used about 415 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	415	13,635

Expressions using "thinly": thinly dressed ♦ thinly populated ♦ thinly populated area ♦ thinly scattered population ♦ thinly sown. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "thinly": thinly-bedded, thinly-concealed, thinly-covered, thinly-cut, thinly-disguised, thinly-peopled region, thinly-populated, thinly-sliced, thinly-spread, thinly-stretch, thinly-upholstered, thinly-veiled.
	Ending with "thinly": micro-thinly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "thinly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i populluar pak (thinly populated, underpopulated). (various references)

Bulgarian		рядко население (thinly scattered population), рядко населен (thinly populated, underpopulated). (various references)

Chinese		稀薄地. (various references)

Danish		tyndt befolkede område (sparsely populated area, thinly populated area), spredning af midlerne (funds spread too thinly). (various references)

Dutch		versnippering van fondsen (funds spread too thinly), dunbevolkte streek (sparsely populated area, thinly populated area), dunbevolkt gebied (sparsely populated area, thinly populated area). (various references)

Finnish		ohuessa puvussa (thinly dressed), harvaan asuttu alue (sparsely populated area, thinly populated area). (various references)

French		saupoudrage des crédits (funds spread too thinly), région sous-peuplée (thinly populated area), région peu peuplée (thinly populated area), habitat dispersé/à (thinly settled). (various references)

German		dünn (fine, finely, flimsy, gaunt, lank, lean, rare, rarefied, skinny, sparse, sparsely, spindly, tabular, tenuous, tenuously, thin, thinn, watery, weak). (various references)

Greek		αραιώσ (sparsely), αραιά. (various references)

Hungarian		vékonyan (thin), soványan (thin), ritkán (by the skin of one's teeth, every once in a while, infrequently, occasionally, once in a blue moon, rarely, seldom, thin), gyéren (scantily, scantly, sparsely, thin). (various references)

Indonesian		godot (saw thinly, slice). (various references)

Italian		magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scraggy, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, thin). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		薄薄 (a little, slightly, vaguely), 薄々 (a little, slightly, vaguely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うすうす (a little, slightly, vaguely). (various references)

Korean		얇게. (various references)

Manx		dy thanney, dy keyl, dy goan. (various references)

Pig Latin		inlythay

Portuguese		região subpovoada (sparsely populated area, thinly populated area), dispersão (broadcast, disperse, dispersive, dissipation, leakage). (various references)

Romanian		subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, weak, wiry), rar (choice, exceptional, far between, infrequent, lank, lanky, occasionally, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

Russian		тонко (finely, subtly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tanko, retko (rarely, seldom, sparsely), oskudno (poorly, sparingly). (various references)

Spanish		escurrido (skinny, slight, thin). (various references)

Swedish		tunt (sparsely). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	rare, rarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Thinly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Othniel, theonly, thiel, thil, thily, thiny, thionyl, Tihany, tinily, tinyl, Trilyn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thinly" (pronounced thi"nlē)
3	-n l ē	benignly, brazenly, certainly, clandestinely, cleanly, commonly, divinely, evenly, finely, gentlemanly, genuinely, greenly, heavenly, humanely, humanly, keenly, lonely, mainly, manly, matronly, mistakenly, obscenely, only, openly, plainly, slovenly, sternly, stubbornly, suddenly, uncertainly, uncommonly, unevenly, ungainly, vainly, wantonly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-l-n-t-y"
	-1 letter: linty.
	-2 letters: hilt, hint, inly, lint, liny, thin, tiny, tyin.
	-3 letters: hin, hit, lin, lit, nil, nit, nth, thy, til, tin, yin.
	-4 letters: hi, in, it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-l-n-t-y"
	+1 letter: ethinyl, nightly, ninthly, thionyl.
	+2 letters: ethinyls, knightly, nihility, thionyls, thornily, tonishly.
	+3 letters: bimonthly, ethylenic, haltingly, labyrinth, lengthily, naughtily, plaything, polyanthi, thinkably, thylacine, unsightly, unstylish.
	+4 letters: chlorinity, ethnically, ethylating, fetchingly, hauntingly, hesitantly, inchoately, inherently, labyrinths, lithifying, midnightly, playthings, scathingly, soothingly, tallyhoing, thinkingly, thrivingly, thylacines, touchingly, trimonthly, unworthily.
	+5 letters: benightedly, daylighting, dishonestly, downrightly, entomophily, fortnightly, hairstyling, hectoringly, hematoxylin, holystoning, kittenishly, methylamine, methylating, methylation, ornithology, photolyzing, phytoalexin, platyrrhine, polytechnic, rhinoplasty, semimonthly, slightingly, staphylinid, stylishness, technically, thrillingly, unhealthily, unthinkably, witheringly, xylophonist.
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