Thin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension: a thin book.
  • adj. Not great in diameter or cross section; fine: thin wire.
  • adj. Lean or slender in form, build, or stature.
  • adj. Not dense or concentrated; sparse: the thin vegetation of the plateau.
  • adj. More rarefied than normal: thin air.
  • adj. Flowing with relative ease; not viscous: a thin oil.
  • adj. Watery: thin soup.
  • adj. Sparsely supplied or provided; scanty: a thin menu; thin trading.
  • adj. Lacking force or substance; flimsy: a thin attempt.
  • adj. Lacking resonance or fullness; tinny: The piano had a thin sound.
  • adj. Lacking radiance or intensity: thin light.
  • adj. Not having enough photographic density or contrast to make satisfactory prints. Used of a negative.
  • ad. In a thin manner: Spread the varnish thin if you don't want it to wrinkle.
  • ad. So as to be thin: Cut the cheese thin.
  • v. To make or become thin or thinner.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  • adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  • adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  • adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
  • adj. Scarce.
  • adj. Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
  • n. A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
  • v. To make thin or thinner.
  • v. To become thin or thinner.
  • v. To dilute.
  • v. To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite
  • adj. Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures.
  • adj. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant
  • adj. Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
  • adj. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  • adj. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
  • ad. Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state.
  • v. To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • verb-intransitive. To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc..
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 14. In art, characterized, in composition, by few and widely separated elements, by absence of serious interest, or by lack of body and force in technique.
  • Very narrow in all diameters; slender; slim; long and fine: as, a thin wire; a thin string.
  • Very narrow in one diameter; having the opposite surfaces very near together; having little thickness or depth; not thick; not heavy: as, thin paper; thin boards: opposed to thick.
  • Having the constituent parts loose or sparse in arrangement; lacking density, compactness, or luxuriance; rare; specifically, of the air and other gases, rarefied.
  • Hence, easily seen through; transparent, literally or figuratively; shallow; flimsy; slight: as, a thin disguise.
  • Having slight consistency or viscosity: said of liquids: as, thin syrup; thin gruel.
  • Deficient in some characteristic or important ingredient; lacking strength or richness; specifically, of liquors, small: opposed to strong.
  • Of sound, lacking in fullness; faint, and often somewhat shrill or metallic in tone.
  • Limited in power or capacity; feeble; weak.
  • Meager; lean; spare; not plump or fat.
  • Limited in quantity or number; small or infrequent; scanty.
  • Scantily occupied or furnished; bare; empty: used absolutely or with of.
  • Having no depth: said of a school of fish.
  • Having insufficient density or contrast to give a good photographic print or a satisfactory image on the screen; weak: said of a negative or a lantern-slide.
  • Thinly.
  • To make thin.
  • To make less dense or compact; make sparse; specifically, to rarefy, as a gas.
  • To reduce in consistency or viscosity: said of liquids: as, to thin starch.
  • To reduce in strength or richness: as, to thin the blood.
  • To make lean or spare.
  • To reduce in numbers or frequency.
  • To make bare or empty.
  • To become thin.
  • A Middle English form of thine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
  • adj. not dense
  • v. lose thickness; become thin or thinner
  • adj. lacking excess flesh
  • adj. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
  • adj. very narrow
  • ad. without viscosity
  • v. take off weight
  • adj. lacking spirit or sincere effort
  • v. make thin or thinner
  • adj. lacking substance or significance
  • adj. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
  • adj. relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
    • Equivalent
    distributed    haggard    twiglike    shrivelled    svelte    boney    slim    slight    lanky    sunken-eyed   
    Antonym
    thick   
    Verb Form
    thinned    thinness    thinning    thins   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    turn    change state   
    Cross Reference
    too thin    thin register    through thick and thin   
    Variant
    thinning    thinned    thinner    thinnest   
    Form
    thinned    thinning    thin out   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rare    slim    slender    lean    gaunt    small    feeble    slight    flimsy    superficial   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Allin    Atkin    Begin    Berlin    Boleyn    Bryn    Chin    Finn    Flynn    Gwyn   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pale    thick    slender    spin-dry   
     
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