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  • 61narrowness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Restricted width Nouns 1. narrowness, closeness, exiguity, littleness; thinness, tenuity, emaciation; narrowing; tapering, contraction; finger s or hair s breadth, line; strip, streak, vein. 2. shaving,… …

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  • 62skinny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. thin, lean, slim, slender. See narrowness. Ant., fat, plump. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lean, gaunt, slender; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. thin, slender, lean, skeletal, emaciated …

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  • 63slender — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slim, thin, skinny, attenuated; tenuous, slight, meager; scanty, weak. See narrowness. Ant., wide, fat, thick. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. slim, slight, spare; see thin 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 64slim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slender, thin, slight; frail, weak, meager. See narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. slender, narrow, lank; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. slender thin, narrow, lean, skinny,… …

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  • 65lanky — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lean, bony, rangy; see thin 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. tall, skinny, lean, bony, slender, spare, twiggy, gangling, skin and bones, spindly, *lean as linguine, *built like a broomstick, *could fall through a… …

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  • 66wasted — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. squandered, spent, destroyed, lost, consumed, eaten up, thrown away, shriveled, gaunt, emaciated, decayed, depleted, scattered, drained, gone for nothing, misapplied, useless, to no avail, down the drain, unappreciated …

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  • 67old-faced — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. cadaverous, careworn, timeworn, rawboned, craggy, crow s feet, fleshy wattle under the chin, gap toothed, goat skinned, haggard, hollowed cheekbones, hollowed eye sockets, jaundiced, leathery, liver spotted, mirthful …

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  • 68twiggy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See… …

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  • 69weedy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See… …

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  • 70Narrowness — (Roget s Thesaurus) Thinness < N PARAG:Narrowness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 narrowness narrowness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 closeness closeness exility Sgm: N 1 exiguity exiguity &c.(little) 193 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 line …

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