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thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, spa.r.s.eness, scantiness.
thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization. a.s.sociated Words: attenuant, diluent.
thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.
third, a. tertiary.
thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought. Antonym: adipsy. a.s.sociated words: slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.
thirty years. a.s.sociated Words: tricennial, tricennially.
thorn, n. spine, p.r.i.c.kle, brier; torment, plague, infliction.
thornless, a. spineless, inermis.
th.o.r.n.y, a. spiny, briery, p.r.i.c.kly; vexatious, troublesome, annoying.
thorough, a. complete, profound. Antonyms: superficial, cursory, partial, sciolistic.
thought, n. reflection, cogitation, revery, musing, meditation, consideration, abstraction, imagination, brown study, contemplation, deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration, rumination, preoccupation, excogitation; idea, concept, surmise, inference.
thoughtful, a. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative, wistful, pensive, preoccupied, abstracted; considerate, heedful, circ.u.mspect, wary.
thoughtless, a. inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash, inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.
thousand, n. a.s.sociated Words: millennium, millennial, chiliad, chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.
thrash, v. thresh.
thread, n. filament, fibre, stamen, staple, pile, raveling, lint, warp, woof, thrum.--v. thrid.
threadbare, a. napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed.
threat, n. menace, threatening, commination, fulmination, intimidation.
threaten, v. menace; augur, forebode, portend; impend, be imminent.
threatening, a. imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating.
three, n. trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets.
a.s.sociated Words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate, triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripart.i.tion, tripod, triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform, triformity, trilling, trilemma.
three-colored, a. tricolored.
three-flowered, a. trifloral, triflorous.
threefold, a. triple.
three-forked, a. trisulcate, trifurcated.
three hundred years. tricentenary. a.s.sociated Words: tercentenary, tricentenary, tri-centennial.
three languages. a.s.sociated Word: trilingual.
three-leaved, a. trifoliate, trifoliated.
three-legged stand. trivet, tripod.
three letters. triphthong, trigraph.
three months. trimester. a.s.sociated Words: trimestral, trimestrial, quarterly.
three-parted, a. tripart.i.te.
three-pointed, a. tricuspidate, tricuspid.
three-pointed spear. trident.
three-sided, a. triangular, trilateral.
three-sided figure. triangle.
three-toothed a. trident, tridentate.
three years. triennium. a.s.sociated Words: triennial, triennially.
threshold, n. doorsill.
thrift, n. frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence; prosperity.
thriftless, a. wasteful, improvident, extravagant, prodigal.
thrifty, a. sparing, economical, provident, frugal; thriving, prosperous; luxuriant.
thrilling, a. moving, exciting, sensational.
thrive, v. flourish, prosper.
thriving, a. flouris.h.i.+ng, thrifty, prosperous.
throat, n. pharynx, fauces; gullet, esophagus. a.s.sociated Words: guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal, pharyngotomy, larynx.
throb, n. beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v. palpitate, pulsate, beat.
throbbing, a. pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.
throne, n. sovereignty. a.s.sociated Words: enthrone, dethrone, dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.
