hair's-breadth

1. 1.

   a very small distance or space

   “they escaped by a hair's-breadth”

   “they lost the election by a whisker”

   Synonymshairsbreadthhairwhisker

   Broadersmall indefinite quantity

Questions about hair's-breadth

What does hair's-breadth mean?

hair's-breadth means "a very small distance or space".

How many syllables are in hair's-breadth?

hair's-breadth has 3 syllables: ha-ir's--breadth. The stress falls on "ha".

What is another word for hair's-breadth?

Close synonyms include hairsbreadth, hair, whisker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hair's-breadth a common word?

hair's-breadth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.