diluted
Made weaker or thinner by adding water or another liquid.
diluted in a sentence
- The diluted orange squash tasted more like water than juice.
- The art teacher gave us diluted paint to make pale watercolour skies.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to diluted?
- Aconcentrated
- Bstrong
- Cweakened
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C: weakened. The other three mean the opposite of diluted.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to diluted?
- Aconcentrated
- Bwatery
- Cthinned
- Dweakened
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A: concentrated. The other three mean nearly the same as diluted.
Words that mean something similar
weakened, watery, thinned
Words that mean the opposite
concentrated, strong
More words about size & amount
- dwindle: To become smaller or fewer, little by little.
- economical: Careful not to waste money, time or materials.
- enormous: Extremely large.
- estimate: To work out roughly how much or how many, without counting exactly.
- extraordinary: So unusual or amazing that it is far beyond normal.
- fragment: A small piece that has broken off something.
- gigantic: Very much bigger than normal.
- hefty: Big, heavy and solid.
More words to explore
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