thinly

副词 adv.

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.
    — The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
  2. Barely; hardly; with little attempt to conceal.
    — a thinly-veiled attack on my integrity

词形变化

more thinly comparative most thinly superlative

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词源

From Middle English þynnelich (“with thin material; thinly”); equivalent to thin + -ly.
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