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Synonyms for thinly
Synonyms for thinly: meagerly, lightly and sparsely. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for thinly
Interchangeable with thinly in this sense
Audited under thinly's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one thinly carries in that sense.
- meagerlyadverb, in the sense "in a sparse or insufficient amount"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name thinly as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from thinly's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
in a sparse or insufficient amount.
The rural clinic was staffed thinly on weekends, leaving patients waiting for hours.
The true synonym
meagerly
Same sentence, swapped: The rural clinic was staffed meagerly on weekends, leaving patients waiting for hours.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for thinly in the sentence quoted.
- bravely
- quickly
- secretly
Where thinly turns up in the game
thinly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where thinly is the trap
- freshlyadverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is newly, in the sense "very recently created, made, or produced", so thinly is there to be ruled out.
- lightlyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is softly, in the sense "with little weight or force", so thinly is there to be ruled out.
- roughlyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is coarsely, in the sense "in a coarse, unfinished manner, without smoothing", and thinly is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play thinly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thinly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from quantity at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. thinly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.