Synonyms for tenth
tɛnθtenth

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1. one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percentnoun

   a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

   Synonyms:
   tenth part, ten percent, one-tenth

   Antonyms:
   cardinal

2. tenthadjective

   position ten in a countable series of things

   Synonyms:
   tenth part, ten percent, one-tenth

   Antonyms:
   cardinal

3. tenth, 10thadjective

   coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position

   Antonyms:
   cardinal

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1. tenthnoun

   Synonyms:
   tithe

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1. tenthnoun

   Synonyms:
   tithe, tithing, decimal

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1. List of paraphrases for "tenth":

   10th, one-tenth, x, decima, ten, 10, xe

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How to use tenth in a sentence?

1. Energy Daniel Nocera:

   The (land) footprint these solar panels need is about one tenth the size of what you would need for sugar cane.

2. Michael Burger:

   This is now, I think, the tenth lawsuit of the sort that has been filed in the United States against fossil fuel companies seeking damages for costs associated with climate change impacts.

3. President Biden:

   No, I’m not, because we’re talking about one tenth of 1 percent. And, you know — anyway. Thank you.

4. William Feather:

   Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

5. Philip Greenspun:

   Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.