FINESPUN

Meaning of FINESPUN in English

adj spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

FINESPUN — adjective Date: 1642 developed with extreme care or delicacy
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FINESPUN — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective 1. : developed or elaborated with extreme care, skill, delicacy, ingenuity the satire touches also, with finespun ridicule, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FINESPUN — (a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
Английский словарь Webster
FINESPUN — /fuyn"spun"/ , adj. 1. spun or drawn out to a fine thread. 2. highly or excessively refined or subtle. Also, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FINESPUN — adj. thin, delicate, flimsy (about fabric, etc.); excessively refined; purified
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FINESPUN — adjective Date: 1642 : developed with extreme care or delicacy ; also : developed in excessively fine or subtle detail
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FINESPUN — [fine.spun] adj (1647): developed with extreme care or delicacy; also: developed in excessively fine or subtle detail
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FINESPUN — finespun BrE AmE ˌfaɪn ˈspʌn ◂ ˈ••
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FINESPUN — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, downy, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, flimsy, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FINESPUN — adj. Function: adjective Synonyms: FINE 1, delicate, hairline, hairsplitting, nice, refined, subtle
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
FINESPUN — adjective Synonyms: fine 1, delicate, hairline, hairsplitting, nice, refined, subtle
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
FINESPUN — finespun изощренный до предела или абсурда ~ тонкий (о ткани) ~ хитросплетенный; запутанный
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FINESPUN — finespun изощренный до предела или абсурда ~ тонкий (о ткани) ~ хитросплетенный; запутанный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
FINESPUN — adj. Pronunciation: ' f ī n- ' sp ə n Function: adjective Date: 1642 : developed with extreme care or …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
COBWEB — /kob"web'/ , n. , v. , cobwebbed, cobwebbing . n. 1. a web spun by a spider to entrap its …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OVERREFINED — adj. excessively refined; excessively improved; excessively fine, excessively finespun
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
WISPY — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous, diluted, …
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WIREDRAWN — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, downy, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, …
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WILLOWY — Synonyms and related words : adaptable, airy, attenuate, attenuated, bendable, bending, boyish, compliant, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ductile, elastic, ethereal, extensible, …
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WEAK — Synonyms and related words : Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, abulic, accented, accessible, achromatic, achromic, afraid, airy, alveolar, amenable, anemic, anile, anthropocentric, …
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WATERY — Synonyms and related words : Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, airy, anemic, aquatic, aqueous, ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, banal, bland, bloodless, boyish, …
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WATERED DOWN — Synonyms and related words : abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, attenuated, bated, belittled, boyish, consumed, contracted, curtailed, cut, dead, decreased, …
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WASP WAISTED — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, …
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VELVETY — Synonyms and related words : attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, cottony, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, …
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VAGUE — Synonyms and related words : abstract, aimless, airy, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, attenuate, attenuated, baggy, bland, blank, …
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THREADLIKE — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, fine, …
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THIN — Synonyms and related words : Lenten, Sanforize, Sanforized, Spartan, a bit thick, a bit thin, abate, abrade, abstemious, abstract, absurd, …
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TENUOUS — Synonyms and related words : adulterated, aerial, air-built, airy, aloof, atomic, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, broken, chimerical, cloud-built, corpuscular, cut, dainty, …
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SYLPHLIKE — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, elfin, elfish, elflike, ethereal, faery, fairy, fairyish, fairylike, …
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SVELTE — Synonyms and related words : airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, …
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SUBTLE — Synonyms and related words : Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstruse, accurate, acute, adulterated, air-built, airy, analytic, analytical, appreciative, arcane, arch, artful, …
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SMOOTH — Synonyms and related words : Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Mickey Mouse, Tullian, accordant, acomous, acute, adipose, adulatory, agreeable, aid, …
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