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Thready

Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

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Thick 84% connected

Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seve…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thick 84% connected

Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seve…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thin 84% connected

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thin 84% connected

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Thread 74% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Thread 74% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Filamentous 92% connected

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Filiform 92% connected

Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ropy 92% connected

capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stringy 92% connected

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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