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tyny

tyny is the obsolete form of tiny.

Meaning of tiny

Adjective

tiny (comparative tinier, superlative tiniest)

  1. Very small.
    • Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2014

See all 6 meanings of tiny

Forms of tyny

comparativemore tyny
superlativemost tyny

Questions about tyny

What is tyny the obsolete form of?
Tyny is the obsolete form of tiny.

Words near tyny in the dictionary

  1. Tynong North
  2. Tynset
  3. Tyntynder
  4. Tyntynder South
  5. Tynwald
  6. tyny
  7. Tyo
  8. TYOOL
  9. tyop
  10. tyops
  11. Tyos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tyny (page history and authors); tiny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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