narrowness. thinness

Roget-categorie 203

2. Words relating to space
› 2.2. Dimensions
›› 2.2.2. Linear dimensions

#203. Narrowness. Thinness

zelfstandig naamwoord

narrowness etc. adj. — closeness, exility^† — exiguity etc. (little) 193.
line — hair's breadth, finger's breadth — strip, streak, vein.
monolayer — epitaxial deposition [Eng.].
thinness etc. adj. — tenuity — emaciation, macilency^†, marcor^†.
shaving, slip etc. (filament) 205 — 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 etc. 198.
narrowing, coarctation^†, angustation^†, tapering — contraction etc. 195.

werkwoord

be narrow etc. adj. — narrow, taper, contract etc. 195 — render narrow etc. adj. — waste away.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

narrow, close — slender, thin, fine — thread-like etc. (filament) 205 — finespun^†, gossamer — paper-thin — taper, slim, slight-made — scant, scanty — spare, delicate, incapacious^† — contracted etc. 195 — unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^† — slender as a thread.
[in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^† — lank, lanky — weedy, skinny — scrawny slinky [U.S.] — starved, starveling — herring gutted — worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; 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.

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