Synonyms for thin

verb

expand, thin out, disperse, weed out, dilute, edit, delete, rarefy, reduce, attenuate; see also decrease 2, weaken 2.

modified

  1. Of little thickness

    flimsy, slim, slight, tenuous, attenuated, diaphanous, sheer, rare, sleazy, permeable, paper-thin, wafer-sliced; see also transparent 1.

    Antonyms thick*, heavy, coarse.

  2. Slender

    slim, lean, skinny, scraggy, lank, lanky, spindly, spare, gaunt, bony, wan, rangy, skeletal, scrawny, lanky, delicate, wasted, haggard, emaciated, rawboned, shriveled, wizened, rickety, spindling, pinched, starved; see also dainty 1.

    Antonyms fat*, obese, heavy.

  3. Sparse

    scarce, insufficient, deficient; see inadequate 1.

  4. Having little content

    sketchy, slight, insubstantial, weak-kneed, vapid, weak, light, feeble, flat, diluted, thinly stretched; see also shallow 1, 2.

    Antonyms thick*, solid, substantial.

  5. Having little volume

    faint, shrill, piping, weak, rarefied, tenuous, attenuated, fragile, small, tiny, featherweight, bodiless, disembodied, ethereal, shaky; see also light 7.

    Antonyms thick*, heavy, dense.

See thin in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


adjective
  1. Having little flesh or fat on the body:

    angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat
  2. Marked by great diffusion of component particles:

    rare, rarefied. See tighten
  3. Lower than normal in strength or concentration due to admixture:

    dilute, washy, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak. See strong
  4. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent:

    exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy. (Slang) measly. See big, excess
  5. Not plausible or believable:

    flimsy, implausible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, shaky, unbelievable, unconceivable, unconvincing, unsubstantial, weak. See likely
verb
  1. To make physically thin or thinner:

    slim. (Archaic) extenuate. See fat, increase
  2. To become diffuse:

    attenuate, rarefy. See tighten
  3. To lessen the strength of by or as if by admixture:

    attenuate, cut, dilute, water (down), weaken. See strong

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