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tinny
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tinny has 3 senses
- tinny(a = adj.pert) Array - of or containing tin; Array Derived form noun tin1
- tinny(s = adj.all) bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy - of very poor quality; flimsy; Array
- tinny(s = adj.all) Array - thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice"
CIDE DICTIONARY
tinny, a.
Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. Drayton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tinny, adj. & n.
--adj. (tinnier, tinniest)
1 of or like tin.
2 (of a metal object) flimsy, insubstantial.
3 a sounding like struck tin. b (of reproduced sound) thin and metallic, lacking low frequencies.
4 Austral. sl. lucky.
--n. (also tinnie) (pl. -ies) Austral. sl. a can of beer.
--adj. (tinnier, tinniest)
1 of or like tin.
2 (of a metal object) flimsy, insubstantial.
3 a sounding like struck tin. b (of reproduced sound) thin and metallic, lacking low frequencies.
4 Austral. sl. lucky.
--n. (also tinnie) (pl. -ies) Austral. sl. a can of beer.
Derivative
tinnily adv. tinniness n.
THESAURUS
tinny
Mickey Mouse, aureate, base, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, cheap, cheesy, choked, coarse, common, copper, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, cupreous, cuprous, dry, ferrous, ferruginous, flimsy, fourth-class, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, inferior, iron, ironlike, irregular, lead, leaden, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, mercurial, mercurous, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, paltry, pewter, pewtery, poor, punk, quicksilver, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, shoddy, silver, silver-plated, silvery, squawking, squawky, steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, tacky, tawdry, thick, third-class, third-rate, throaty, tin, twangy
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