English > thin: 13 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section. |
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| Examples | - "thin wire"
- "a thin chiffon blouse"
- "a thin book"
- "a thin layer of paint"
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| Attribute of | thickness | The dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width |
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| Narrower | bladed | Composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade |
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| capillary, hairlike | long and slender with a very small internal diameter |
| compressed, flat | flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) |
| depressed | flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces |
| diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby | So thin as to transmit light |
| filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready | Thin in diameter |
| fine | Thin in thickness or diameter |
| hyperfine | Extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components |
| light | Very thin and insubstantial |
| paper thin | Thin as paper |
| papery | Thin and paperlike |
| ribbonlike, ribbony | long and thin |
| sleazy | Of cloth |
| slender | Having little width in proportion to the length or height |
| tenuous | Very thin in gauge or diameter |
| wafer-thin | Very thin |
| See also | narrow | not wide |
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| thin, lean | lacking excess flesh |
| Opposite | thick | not thin |
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| Spanish | delgado, fino |
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| Catalan | prim |
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| Nouns | thinness | relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width |
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| Adverbs | thinly | in a small quantity or extent |
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English > thin: 13 senses > adjective 2| Meaning | lacking excess flesh. |
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| Example | "you can't be too rich or too thin" |
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| Synonym | lean |
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| Attribute of | body weight | The weight of a person's body |
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| Narrower | anorexic, anorectic | Suffering from anorexia nervosa |
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| cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted | Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed | characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver |
| gangling, gangly, lanky | tall and thin |
| lank, spindly | long and lean |
| rawboned | Having a lean and bony physique |
| reedy, reedlike | resembling a reed in being upright and slender |
| scarecrowish | resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged |
| scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy | Very thin |
| shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened | Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness |
| slender, slight, slim, svelte | Of delicate or slender build / build |
| slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted | Having a small waist |
| spare, trim | Thin and fit |
| spindle-legged, spindle-shanked | Having long slender legs |
| stringy, wiry | Lean and sinewy |
| sylphlike, sylphic | (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph |
| twiggy, twiglike | Thin as a twig |
| wisplike, wispy | Thin and weak |
| See also | ectomorphic | Having a build / build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs |
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| thin | Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
| Opposite | fat | Having an (over)abundance of flesh |
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| Spanish | delgado, esbelto, flaco, magro |
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| Catalan | prim |
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| Nouns | thinness | the property of having little body fat |
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