Another word for thin
thin
modif.
Of little thickness
flimsy, slim, slight, tenuous, attenuated, diaphanous, sheer, rare, sleazy, permeable, paper-thin, wafer-sliced; see also transparent 1.
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.
Sparse
scarce, insufficient, deficient; see inadequate 1.
Having little content
sketchy, slight, insubstantial, weak-kneed, vapid, weak, light, feeble, flat, diluted, thinly stretched; see also shallow 1, 2.
Having little volume
faint, shrill, piping, weak, rarefied, tenuous, attenuated, fragile, small, tiny, featherweight, bodiless, disembodied, ethereal, shaky; see also light 7.
thin
v.
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Another word for thin
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 fatMarked by great diffusion of component particles:
rare, rarefied. See tightenLower than normal in strength or concentration due to admixture:
dilute, washy, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak. See strongConspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent:
exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy. (Slang) measly. See big, excessNot plausible or believable:
flimsy, implausible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, shaky, unbelievable, unconceivable, unconvincing, unsubstantial, weak. See likely
To make physically thin or thinner:
slim. (Archaic) extenuate. See fat, increaseTo become diffuse:
attenuate, rarefy. See tightenTo lessen the strength of by or as if by admixture:
attenuate, cut, dilute, water (down), weaken. See strong
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