The speeding car missed the child, who ran out into the road, by only a hairsbreadth.
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Hairsbreadth
/ˈhɛəɹzbɹɛdθ/
Synonyms for "hairsbreadth" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Noun(10 words)
Related words (24)
Noun(16 words)
narrow marginnarrowlynarrownessnegligiblescarcelyslenderslight differenceslight marginsliver of spacesmall margintighttinytiny amounttiny distancewhiskerwow
Related word relations
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More general
22 entriesactionadverbadverb of degreedifferencedistancedistance measureexclamationextent descriptorfigurative measureinterjectionlinguistic unitmarginmeasurementmeasurement unitmetaphormotion
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More specific
21 entriesallowancebarelygoodnessgoshhairline gapmarginal differencemicro-distancemicrometermicroscopicmillimeterminuteminute distancenarrow gapnarrow thresholdnarrowlynear miss
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Collocations
30 entriesby a hairsbreadthclose marginhair's breadthhairbreadth marginhairbreadth measurehairsbreadth abovehairsbreadth accuracyhairsbreadth differencehairsbreadth distancehairsbreadth gaphairsbreadth marginhairsbreadth measurehairsbreadth of errorhairsbreadth of spacehairsbreadth precisionhairsbreadth tolerance
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Inflections
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4 entriesSample sentences
5 total sentences available.
[...] I ſee you are obſequious in your loue, and I profeſſe requitall to a haires bredth, [...]
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[I]t was characteristic of this man, as it is of all men similarly marked, that whatever he did, he overdid, though it were sometimes by only a hair's-breadth [...]
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We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles.
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