Word Type

Adjective

Verb

Adjective

Noun

Adverb

Adverb

The word "thin" can be used as adjective, verb, adjective, noun, adverb and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

fat full obese thick thick thicken

Defined As

opposite of fat

Derived Terms

gossamer-thin have a thin time of it into thin air on thin ice out of thin air paper-thin pencil-thin rail-thin razor thin razor-thin run thin skate on thin ice spread oneself thin spread oneself too thin stick-thin stretch thin thick and thin thick-and-thin block thin air thin as a barber's cat thin as a rail thin as a rake thin as a wafer thin as a yard of pump water thin blue line thin client thin computing thin content thin down thin edge of the wedge thin end of the wedge thin film thin layer chromatography thin on the ground thin out thin paper thin sandwich course thin sandwich degree thin section thin shaming thin skin thin skull rule thin slice thin space thin the herd thin trading thin up thin-bladed thin-crust pizza thin-film thin-layer chromatography thin-skinned thin-skinnedness thin-slice thin-slicing thinclad thinly thinner thinspiration through thick and thin wafer-thin wear thin

Distinct From

obese

Etymologically Related To

tenuous

Context

eye dialect golf philately

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

bring down change state cut cut back cut down reduce trim trim back trim down turn weaken

Manner Of

change state reduce

Related Terms

thinness

Related Terms

cross section dilute ectomorphic extent fat food gaunt golf gravity lean narrow plant remove scarce shank skinny slender slim surface thickness thinner toe viscosity

Similar Terms

anorectic anorectic anorexic bladed bladed boney bony cadaverous cadaverous capillary cobwebby compressed compressed deep-eyed depressed depressed diaphanous distributed ectomorphic emaciated filamentlike filamentlike filamentous filiform filmy fine fine flat gangling gangling gangly gaunt gauze-like gauzy gossamer haggard hairlike hairlike hollow eyed hollow-eyed hyperfine hyperfine insignificant lank lanky lean light light narrow pale pale paper thin paper thin papery papery pinched rare rarefied rarefied rarified rawboned rawboned reedlike reedlike reedy ribbonlike ribbonlike ribbony scarecrowish scarecrowish scraggly scraggy scrawny see through see-through sheer shriveled shriveled shrivelled shrunken skeletal skinny sleazy sleazy slender slender slender waisted slender-waisted slight slim slim thick slim-waisted spare spare spindle shanked spindle-legged spindle-shanked spindly spindly spiritless spiritless stringy stringy sunken-eyed svelte sylphic sylphlike sylphlike tenuous tenuous threadlike thready transparent trim twiggy twiglike twiglike underweight underweight unimportant vaporous vapourous wafer thin wafer-thin wasp-waisted wasted weedy wiry wisplike wisplike wispy withered wizen wizened

Synonym Network

dilute fine lightweight narrow reduce reedy skinny slender slim sparse svelte tenuous thinly waifish

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