Used in a Sentence

thinnest

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for thinnest.

Editorial note

The MacBook is designed to be the thinnest and lightest possible laptop that provides adequate performance for the majority of users.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of thinnest gathered in one view.

adjective

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

adjective

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

adjective

Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thinnest.

adjective

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

adjective

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

adjective

Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

adjective

Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.

Example sentences

1

The MacBook is designed to be the thinnest and lightest possible laptop that provides adequate performance for the majority of users.

2

Proof by contradiction is unnecessary frippery providing the thinnest, thinnest of covers over the triviality of the proof, which is itself the joke.

3

I mean, the Oppo R5 is the World's thinnest phone and it has an eight-core 64-bit Snapdragon chipset!

4

With us, you’re holding the thinnest wearable ever made so it kind of tests limits of those tolerances.

5

When they start getting close to thinnest, it gets higher pitched, and then reverses when they start to thicken again.

6

Not because they're $25, but because they're not built on the thinnest and leanest software.

7

If it's the lowest powered device, it'll probably be the thinnest and lightest etc, too.

8

My LG W2242P does it for a range where the bars are at there thinnest.

9

I know you can get 32GB in a W550s which is probably the thinnest/lightest laptop capable of 32GB.

10

I wish they did, but everyone is obsessed with making the thinnest device possible, even at the expense of functionality.

11

Give me leather even if it's not the absolute thinnest thing.

12

It is not the thinnest layer but I don't think his comment was off either.

Quote examples

1

Yes, and teenagers still operate under the illusion that "being a real grownup" is a actual thing, and not just the thinnest of veneers.

2

I just saw this from the article: > “With us, you’re holding the thinnest wearable ever made so it kind of tests limits of those tolerances.

3

It was very recently (last year or so) that Lynda started doing more business courses[2] (how to calculate ROI, how to write a business plan, etc) Since those business courses are probably their thinnest and weakest offerings, I can only speculate that it was a partly a "proof-of-concept" to show a prospective acquirer (such as LinkedIn) the breadth of topics the content platform could deliver.

4

I suppose it's more of a language quality issue than a program quality issue, but reducing verbosity by undermining the type system rather than providing a simple "allocate<T>(n)" function, especially in a language that doesn't care about verbosity enough to provide even the thinnest of syntactic abstractions, is just ridiculous.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use thinnest in a sentence?

The MacBook is designed to be the thinnest and lightest possible laptop that provides adequate performance for the majority of users.

What does thinnest mean?

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

What part of speech is thinnest?

thinnest is commonly used as adjective.