Another word for thin
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Adjective
Having little flesh or fat on the body
- Full of or consisting of weeds:
- Being, characteristic of, or resembling a weed:
- Of a scrawny build; spindly or gawky.
- Resembling a twig or twigs, as in slenderness or fragility.
- Abounding in twigs:
- To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing:
- To leave undamaged or unharmed:
- To refrain from denouncing or distressing; treat leniently or with consideration:
- Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
- Small in quantity or amount; meager:
- To become or make slim.
- Having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin:
- Thin and delicate in build; gracefully slim:
- Small in amount or extent; meager:
- Having very little bodily flesh or fat, often unattractively so; very thin.
- Having little width; narrow:
- Of, relating to, or resembling skin.
- Very thin and bony:
- Stunted or straggly:
- Having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
- Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
- Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble:
- Having little flesh; lean.
- To bend or slant away from the vertical.
- To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported:
- To rely for assistance or support:
- Tall, thin, and often ungainly.
- Long and lean.
- Long, straight, and limp:
- Thin or emaciated:
- Bleak or desolate:
- Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.
- Having an internal skeleton of bones.
- Full of bones:
- Having, forming, or consisting of an angle or angles.
- Measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc.
- Bony and lean; gaunt:
Idioms:See also:Marked by great diffusion of component particles
- Not dense; thin:
- Belonging to or reserved for a small select group; exclusive:
- Refined or esoteric:
- Infrequently occurring; uncommon:
- Excellent; extraordinary:
- Thin in density; rarefied:
See also:Lower than normal in strength or concentration due to admixture
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Filled with, consisting of, or soaked with water; wet or soggy:
- Containing too much water; diluted:
- Suggestive of water, as in being thin, pale, or liquid:
- Resembling water; watery.
- Diminished in force or effect:
- Pale in color; washed-out.
- Watery; diluted:
- Lacking strength or resolution:
- To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
- To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
- To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.
See also:Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent
- Contemptibly small; meager:
- Infected with measles.
- Giving or spending reluctantly.
- Scanty or meager:
- Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense.
- To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing:
- To leave undamaged or unharmed:
- To refrain from denouncing or distressing; treat leniently or with consideration:
- Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting:
- Not covering a considerable amount of the body:
- Small or insufficient in amount, size, or extent:
- Not covering a considerable amount of the body:
- Barely sufficient:
- Falling short of a specific measure:
- Inadequately supplied; short:
- Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
- Sickly; ill.
- Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
- Relating to or characterized by poverty:
- Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality:
- Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
- Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble:
- Having little flesh; lean.
- Extremely scanty; meager.
Not plausible or believable
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
- Lacking basis in fact.
- Not convincing:
- Inconceivable:
- Not to be believed; incredible:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- So implausible as to elicit disbelief; unbelievable:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully:
- So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable:
- Unlikely to take place or be true.
- Difficult to believe; not plausible.
- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
See also:
Verb
To make physically thin or thinner
- To lessen or appear to lessen the seriousness or extent of (an offense, for example), especially by providing partial excuses:
- To make thin or emaciated.
- To mitigate or lessen.
- Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
- Small in quantity or amount; meager:
- To become or make slim.
To become diffuse
- To make thin or less dense, as air.
- To purify or refine:
- To become thin or less dense.
- To make slender, fine, or small:
- To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken:
- To lessen the density of; rarefy.
See also:To lessen the strength of by or as if by admixture
- To make or become weak or weaker.
- A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H2 O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).
- Any of various forms of water:
- Naturally occurring mineral water, as at a spa.
- To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
- To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
- To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.
- To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
- To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever:
- To sever the edges or ends of; shorten:
- To make slender, fine, or small:
- To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken:
- To lessen the density of; rarefy.
See also:
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Another word for thin
Modifier
Of little thickness
- Very thin or shallow:
- Capable of being permeated or penetrated, especially by liquids or gases:
- Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry:
- Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable:
- Made of low-quality materials; cheap or shoddy.
- Infrequently occurring; uncommon:
- Excellent; extraordinary:
- Thin in density; rarefied:
- To swerve or cause to swerve from a course.
- A swerving or deviating course.
- The upward curve or amount of upward curve of the longitudinal lines of a ship's hull as viewed from the side.
- Sufficiently thin or airy as to be translucent:
- Of such fine composition as to be easily damaged or broken; delicate:
- simple past tense and past participle of attenuate
- Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
- Weak or insubstantial; flimsy:
- Precarious or insecure:
- Long and thin; slender:
- Small in size, degree, or amount:
- Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail:
- Of small importance or consideration; trifling:
- Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
- Small in quantity or amount; meager:
- To become or make slim.
- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
See also:Slender
- Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
- (colloquial) Extremely hungry.
- simple past tense and past participle of starve
- simple past tense and past participle of pinch
- very thin
- Spindly.
- Likely to break or fall apart; shaky.
- Feeble with age; infirm.
- Of, having, or resembling rickets.
- Withered; wizen.
- Having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
- Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.
- Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
- An adult hawk captured for training.
- Not profitably used or maintained:
- Needless or superfluous:
- Deteriorated; ravaged:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Tall, thin, and often ungainly.
- Very thin and bony:
- Stunted or straggly:
- Of, relating to, forming, or of the nature of a skeleton.
- Attached to or formed by a skeleton.
- So thin or emaciated as to appear bony.
- Having long slender limbs.
- Inclined to rove.
- Providing ample range; roomy.
- Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
- Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy:
- To become pale.
- Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.
- Having an internal skeleton of bones.
- Full of bones:
- Thin or emaciated:
- Bleak or desolate:
- To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing:
- To leave undamaged or unharmed:
- To refrain from denouncing or distressing; treat leniently or with consideration:
- Slender and elongated, especially in a way that suggests weakness.
- Tall, thin, and often ungainly.
- Long and lean.
- Long, straight, and limp:
- Jagged; rough:
- Bony and lean:
- Having very little bodily flesh or fat, often unattractively so; very thin.
- Having little width; narrow:
- Of, relating to, or resembling skin.
- To bend or slant away from the vertical.
- To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported:
- To rely for assistance or support:
- Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
- Small in quantity or amount; meager:
- To become or make slim.
Sparse
- Lacking an essential quality or element:
- Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
- Not sufficient; inadequate.
- Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply:
- Hard to find; absent or rare:
- Barely or hardly; scarcely.
See also:Having little content
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Lacking bodily strength; weak:
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain:
- Electromagnetic radiation that is visible, perceivable by the normal human eye as colors between red and violet, having frequencies between 400 terahertz and 790 terahertz and wavelengths between 750 nanometers and 380 nanometers.
- Electromagnetic radiation of any frequency or wavelength.
- The sensation of perceiving light; brightness:
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull:
- Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat:
- Lacking strength of character or purpose.
- Not firm or solid; weak or flimsy:
- Very small or negligible, as in importance, size, or amount:
- Lacking or appearing to lack substance or reality:
- Small in size, degree, or amount:
- Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail:
- Of small importance or consideration; trifling:
- Resembling a sketch; drawn with little detail:
- Missing important points or lacking in detail; not thorough:
- Of questionable authenticity or trustworthiness:
See also:Antonyms:Having little volume
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- Extremely light or delicate:
- Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.
- Spiritual or otherworldly.
- Simple past tense and past participle of disembody.
- Having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.
- Having no body, form, or substance; incorporeal.
- A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 126 pounds (56.7 kilograms), between junior featherweight and junior lightweight.
- A boxer competing in this weight division.
- A similar weight division in other sports, such as weightlifting.
- Extremely small:
- Being below average in size:
- Being below average in quantity or extent:
- Limited in importance or significance; trivial:
- Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed.
- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
- simple past tense and past participle of attenuate
- Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
- Weak or insubstantial; flimsy:
- Precarious or insecure:
- Long and thin; slender:
- Not dense; thin:
- Belonging to or reserved for a small select group; exclusive:
- Refined or esoteric:
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.
- The act of playing on a pipe.
- The music produced by a pipe when played.
- High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound:
- Producing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound:
- Sharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid:
- Done with little strength or vigor; feeble:
- So weak as to be difficult to perceive;
- Lacking clarity or distinctness:
Verb
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- To make slender, fine, or small:
- To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken:
- To lessen the density of; rarefy.
- To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.
- To gain control of; subject or conquer:
- To subject to destruction:
- To make thin or less dense, as air.
- To purify or refine:
- To become thin or less dense.
- To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived:
- To remove from a document or record:
- To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.
- To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- To prepare an edition of for publication:
- To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable:
- To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
- To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
- To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.
- To drive off or scatter in different directions:
- To strew or distribute widely:
- To cause to attenuate and disappear:
- To increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of; enlarge:
- To express at length or in detail; enlarge on:
- To open (something) up or out; spread out:
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