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What is the adjective for attenuated?

What's the adjective for attenuated? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb attenuate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

attenuated

Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
(botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
Synonyms:

thin, skinny, bony, slender, gaunt, spindly, slim, skeletal, attenuate, narrow, rarefied, elongated, refined, slimmed, thinned, thread-like, stretched out, thinned down, lean, scrawny, lank, lanky, spare, scraggy, emaciated, angular, rangy, slight, cadaverous, wasted, size-zero, undernourished, starved, pinched, meager, shriveled, shrivelled, gangling, gangly, haggard, raw-boned, meagre, twiggy, rawboned, wizened, skin-and-bones, reedy, delicate, underweight, anorexic … more

Examples:

“Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form.”

“It appears likely that the courts will be given an attenuated role in the enforcement of these decisions.”

attenuate

(botany) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
Synonyms:

lank, skinny, thin, scrawny, lean, bony, gaunt, emaciated, lanky, scraggy, angular, rangy, spare, spindly, gangling, skeletal, gangly, slender, slim, rawboned, starved, cadaverous, undernourished, attenuated, slight, pinched, wasted, haggard, beanpole, twiggy, underweight, beanstalk, meagre, meager, puny, reedy, gawky, weedy, wizened, fragile, stalky, delicate, stick, featherweight, twiglike, shrivelled, shriveled, fleshless, ethereal, lightweight … more

attenuative

Tending to attenuate or lessen the force of something.
Examples:

“The area is underlain by competent attenuative clayey and red lateritic soils.”

“However, in most cases wave propagation from the crack to the sensor is attenuative and dispersive.”

“Specifically, an analytical model of ultrasound wave focusing in a homogeneous, isotropic and attenuative fluid with point sources is presented.”

attenuable

Capable of being attenuated.

attenuating

present participle of attenuate
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