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/ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/ · adjective
The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth..
“Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”
We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying.
Use thousandth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Thousandth means The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth..
Common synonyms include ordinal, one-thousandth, 1000th.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”
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