1.
2.
[syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
3. thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance;
- Example: "an unpleasant tinny voice"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tinny \Tin"ny\, a.
Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. "The tinny
strand." --Drayton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tinny
adj 1: of or containing tin
2: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy,
chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
3: thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant
tinny voice"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "tinny":
Mickey Mouse, aureate, base, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy,
cheap, cheesy, choked, coarse, common, copper, coppery, cracked,
croaking, croaky, cupreous, cuprous, dry, ferrous, ferruginous,
flimsy, fourth-class, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden,
gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, inferior,
iron, ironlike, irregular, lead, leaden, low-class, low-grade,
low-quality, low-test, mean, mercurial, mercurous, metallic,
nickel, nickelic, nickeline, paltry, pewter, pewtery, poor, punk,
quicksilver, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude,
second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, shoddy, silver,
silver-plated, silvery, squawking, squawky, steel, steely,
stertorous, strangled, tacky, tawdry, thick, third-class,
third-rate, throaty, tin, twangy