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wafer-thin

wafer-thin adjective: very thin, as thin as a wafer.

Adjective

wafer-thin (not comparable)

  1. Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
  2. Extremely marginal or tenuous.
    • The President is struggling to maintain his government with only a wafer-thin majority in the lower house.

Words formed from wafer-thin

Phrases with wafer-thin

Questions about wafer-thin

What does wafer-thin mean?
Wafer-thin means very thin, as thin as a wafer.
What part of speech is wafer-thin?
Wafer-thin is an adjective.

Words near wafer-thin in the dictionary

  1. Wafdists
  2. wafer
  3. wafer trapdoor spider
  4. wafer trapdoor spiders
  5. wafer-scale integration
  6. wafer-thin
  7. wafer-thin mint
  8. wafer-thin mints
  9. waferboard
  10. waferboards
  11. wafered

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