attenuated as an adjective: - 1
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attenuated
adjective
1 attenuated
Of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion.
Roget 203:
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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2 attenuated
Moby thesaurus: 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, wraithlike ... show more.
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