Tinny

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tinny \Tin"ny\, a.
     Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. "The tinny
     strand." --Drayton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tinny
       adj 1: of very poor quality [syn: {bum}, {cheap}, {cheesy}, {chintzy},
               {crummy}, {punk}, {sleazy}]
       2: thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an
          unpleasant tinny voice"
       [also: {tinniest}, {tinnier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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