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thin
/θɪn/
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  1. adjective
    lacking excess flesh
    "you can't be too rich or too thin"

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    lean shrunken skeletal skinny anorectic slender anorexic slender-waisted slight slim slim-waisted spare spindle-legged spindle-shanked spindly sunken-eyed svelte sylphic sylphlike trim stringy shriveled shrivelled gangling gangly gaunt wiry haggard hollow-eyed lank lanky wasted wasp-waisted pinched underweight twiglike rawboned reedlike reedy weedy scarecrowish scraggly scraggy scrawny twiggy boney bony cadaverous wizened wizen withered deep-eyed wispy emaciated wisplike
    Opposite:
    fat
  2. adjective
    not dense
    "a thin beard"

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    sparse distributed
  3. verb
    take off weight

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    melt off reduce slenderize slim slim down
    type of:
    turn change state
  4. adjective
    lacking substance or significance
    "a thin plot"

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    flimsy fragile slight tenuous unimportant insignificant
  5. adverb
    without viscosity
    "the blood was flowing thin"

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    thinly
  6. verb
    lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

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    cut dilute reduce thin out
    type of:
    weaken
  7. adjective
    very narrow
    "a thin line across the page"

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    slender narrow
  8. adjective
    lacking spirit or sincere effort
    "a thin smile"

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    spiritless
  9. verb
    lose thickness; become thin or thinner
    Opposite:
    thicken
    type of:
    turn change state
  10. verb
    make thin or thinner
    Opposite:
    thicken
  11. adjective
    of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
    "thin wire" "a thin chiffon blouse" "a thin book" "a thin layer of paint"

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    see-through bladed capillary cobwebby compressed depressed diaphanous filamentlike filamentous filiform filmy fine flat gauze-like gauzy gossamer hairlike hyperfine light paper thin papery ribbonlike ribbony sheer sleazy slender tenuous threadlike thready transparent vaporous vapourous wafer-thin
    Opposite:
    thick
  12. adjective
    (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
    "a thin feeble cry"

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    pale
    Opposite:
    full
  13. adjective
    relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
    "air is thin at high altitudes" "a thin soup" "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk" "thin oil"

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    rarefied rare tenuous rarified
    Opposite:
    thick
Examples of thin
  • "you can't be too rich or too thin"
  • "a thin beard"
  • "a thin plot"
  • "the blood was flowing thin"
  • "a thin line across the page"
  • "a thin smile"
  • "thin wire"
  • "a thin chiffon blouse"
  • "a thin book"
  • "a thin layer of paint"
  • "a thin feeble cry"
  • "air is thin at high altitudes"
  • "a thin soup"
  • "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"
  • "thin oil"
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