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/tɛnθ/ · adjective
The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth..
My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.
These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.
A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.
The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.
Use tenth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tenth means The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth..
Common synonyms include 10th, Xth, tithe, X.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.
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