attenuated
/ətˈɛnjuˌeɪtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.75 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of attenuate
adj
Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
adj
Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
adj
Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
Example Sentences
- "attenuated power"
- "He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from."
- "She had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person."
- "To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property."
- "Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)"
- "the live attenuated type of vaccines"
Inflected Forms
more attenuated (comparative)
most attenuated (superlative)