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[ tin-ee ] / ˈtɪn i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR tinny ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, tin·ni·er, tin·ni·est.of or like tin. containing tin. lacking in timbre or resonance; sounding thin or twangy: a tinny piano. not strong or durable; flimsy; shoddy. having the taste of tin. Origin of tinnyFirst recorded in 1545–55; tin + -y1 OTHER WORDS FROM tinnytin·ni·ly, adverbtin·ni·ness, nounWords nearby tinnytinnery, Tinnevelly senna, tinnient, tinning, tinnitus, tinny, tin-opener, Tínos, tin-pan, Tin Pan Alley, tin-panning Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tinnyPeople listen to it on tinny cellphone speakers that are entirely inferior to what they had in lo-tech times of yore. Comedy Is His Calling: The Brilliance of Billy Crystal|Tom Shales|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST And when he tried to strike a sympathetic note with “people who are looking for work,” it came off as tinny and flat. Why Mitt Romney Is Winning, and Rick Perry Is Losing|Andrew Romano|January 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST When he flew to the back of a chair and perched upon it, his tin feathers rattled against one another with a tinny clatter. The Tin Woodman of Oz|L. Frank Baum There was dead silence in the ship, save for a small, tinny voice in Joe's headphones. Space Tug|Murray Leinster
That's only a tinny sort of glitter just now, but you should see the moon rise over it. Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions "They've got the big trap out of the ship," said the distant, tinny voice of the crewman. The Giants From Outer Space|Geoff St. Reynard The words were in English—the tinny, saw-cut English of the native-bred, and the chaplain jumped.
British Dictionary definitions for tinny
adjective -nier or -niestof, relating to, or resembling tin cheap, badly made, or shoddy (of a sound) high, thin, and metallic (of food or drink) flavoured with metal, as from a container Australian informal lucky noun plural -niesAustralian slang a can of beer Also: tinnie Australian informal a small fishing or pleasure boat with an aluminium hull Derived forms of tinnytinnily, adverbtinniness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to tinnygolden, silvery, iron, mineral, hard, leaden, fusible, geologic, metallurgic, ory, rocklike, stannic |