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attenuated en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
    • attenuated power
    • She had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person. 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:
    • 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. 2025, Sonia Sotomayor (writing for a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States), Opinion of the Court in Republic of Hungary et al. v. Simon et al., № 23—867, 2025-02-21
    • 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. 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 28:
  2. (of pathogens) Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation. ▸ Weakened, usually in a way that includes nonreplicating status.
    • the live attenuated type of vaccines
    • Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)
  3. Long and tapering (especially of leaves)

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more attenuated Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most attenuated Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

stark · unqualified · out-and-out · arrant · perfect · unmitigated · unfettered · regular · unalloyed · complete · clean · prize · outright · sheer · total · unalloyed · utter · straight-out · unadulterated · arrant · abject · unrestricted · stark · downright · unattenuated · unreserved · unconditional · full-bore · full-blown · unrestricted · out-and-out · full-on · precious · categorical · unreserved · unfettered · perfect · root and branch · categoric · unattenuated · outright · wholesale · categorical · thorough · thoroughgoing · regular · decided · unattenuated · right · frightful · utter · pure · uncompromising · decided · precious · pure · categoric · full · full · downright · sheer · frightful · consummate · mere · absolute · root and branch · thorough · uncompromising · prize · clean · full-blown · complete · proper · straight-out · unqualified · total · consummate · unconditional · unadulterated · abject · full-on · rank · full-bore · thoroughgoing · rank · absolute · wholesale · mere · right · unmitigated · proper · unattenuated

Coordinates

killed · nonlive

Deriveds

radioattenuated · subattenuated · nonattenuated · unattenuated · hyperattenuated · attenuated bluet · hypoattenuated · neuroattenuated · overattenuated

Synonyms

nonreplicating

Translations (1)

es atenuado (Translations)

attenuated en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of attenuate
    form of attenuate