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Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb thin 3 of 4 senses of thin Sense 2 thin => draw Sense 3 dilute, thin, thin out reduce, cut => water down Sense 4 reduce, melt off lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down => sweat off Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb thin 3 of 4 senses of thin Sense 2 thin => draw Sense 3 dilute, thin, thin out reduce, cut => water down Sense 4 reduce, melt off lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down => sweat off Entailment of verb thin Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb thin 4 senses of thin Sense 1 thin => change state, turn Sense 2 thin => reduce, cut down cut back trim, trim down trim back cut, bring down Sense 3 dilute, thin, thin out reduce, cut => weaken Sense 4 reduce, melt off lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down => change state, turn Familiarity of verb thin thin used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count = 4) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb thin Sense 1 thin => change state, turn -------------- Sense 2 thin => reduce, cut down cut back trim, trim down trim back cut, bring down -------------- Sense 3 dilute, thin, thin out reduce, cut => weaken -------------- Sense 4 reduce, melt off lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down => change state, turn -------------- Grep of noun thin cephalothin christ within lecithin light within strophanthin thin-leaved bilberry thin-leaved stringybark thin-shelled mussel thin air thin person thing thing-in-itself thingamabob thingamajig thingmabob thingmajig things thingumabob thingumajig thingummy think think factory think tank thinker thinking thinking cap thinner thinness thinning thinning shears zeaxanthin Overview of verb thin The verb thin has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (2) thin -- (lose thickness; become thin or thinner) 2. thin -- (make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution") 3. dilute, thin, thin out reduce, cut -- (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon") 4. reduce, melt off lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down -- (take off weight) Overview of adj thin The adj thin has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts) 1. (17) thin -- (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint") 2. (15) thin, lean -- (lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare) 3. (7) slender, thin -- (very narrow; "a thin line across the page") 4. (2) flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin -- (having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot") 5. (2) sparse, thin -- (not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse") 6. (1) thin -- (relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil") 7. thin -- ((of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry") 8. thin -- (lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile") Overview of adv thin The adv thin has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. thinly, thin -- (without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin") Antonyms of adj thin 8 senses of thin Sense 1 thin (vs. thick) thick (vs. thin) => deep => deep-chested => fat => four-ply => heavy => quilted => three-ply => two-ply => thickened Sense 2 thin (vs. fat), lean fat (vs. thin) => abdominous, paunchy, potbellied => blubber, blubbery => buxom, chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig => compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset => corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund => double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled => dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby => fattish => fleshy, heavy, overweight => gross, porcine => portly, stout Sense 3 slender, thin INDIRECT (VIA narrow) -> wide, broad Sense 4 flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin INDIRECT (VIA weak) -> strong Sense 5 sparse, thin INDIRECT (VIA distributed) -> concentrated Sense 6 thin (vs. thick) thick (vs. thin) => clogged, clotted => creamy, cream(postnominal), soupy => dense, heavy, impenetrable => gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike => heavy => ropy, ropey, stringy, thready => syrupy, viscous => thickened => coagulable => coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous, grumose Sense 7 thin (vs. full) full (vs. thin) => booming, stentorian => grumbling, rumbling => plangent => rich => orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped => sounding => heavy, sonorous Sense 8 thin INDIRECT (VIA spiritless) -> spirited Similarity of adj thin 8 senses of thin Sense 1 thin (vs. thick) => bladed => capillary, hairlike => chiffon => compressed, flat => depressed => diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby => filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready => fine => flimsy, light => hyperfine => papery => sleazy => slender => tenuous => wafer-thin => ribbonlike, ribbony Also See-> narrow#1; thin#2, lean#1 Sense 2 thin (vs. fat), lean => anorexic, anorectic => bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted => deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed => gangling, gangly, lanky => lank, spindly => rawboned => reedy, reedlike => twiggy, twiglike => scarecrowish => scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy => shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened => slender, slight, slim => slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted => spare, trim => spindle-legged, spindle-shanked => stringy, wiry => wisplike, wispy => shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened Also See-> ectomorphic#1; thin#1 Sense 3 slender, thin => narrow (vs. wide) Sense 4 flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin => weak (vs. strong) Sense 5 sparse, thin => distributed (vs. concentrated) Sense 6 thin (vs. thick) => tenuous => rare rarefied, rarified Sense 7 thin (vs. full) => pale Sense 8 thin => spiritless (vs. spirited) Attributes of adj thin 3 of 8 senses of thin Sense 1 thin (vs. thick) => thickness Sense 2 thin (vs. fat), lean => body weight Sense 6 thin (vs. thick) => thickness => consistency, consistence, body Familiarity of adj thin thin used as an adjective is common (polysemy count = 8) Grep of adj thin thin thin-skinned thinkable thinking thinned wafer-thin Overview of verb thin The verb thin has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (2) thin -- (lose thickness; become thin or thinner) 2. thin -- (make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution") 3. dilute, thin, thin out reduce, cut -- (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon") 4. reduce, melt off lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down -- (take off weight) Overview of adj thin The adj thin has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts) 1. (17) thin -- (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint") 2. (15) thin, lean -- (lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare) 3. (7) slender, thin -- (very narrow; "a thin line across the page") 4. (2) flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin -- (having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot") 5. (2) sparse, thin -- (not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse") 6. (1) thin -- (relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil") 7. thin -- ((of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry") 8. thin -- (lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile") Overview of adv thin The adv thin has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. thinly, thin -- (without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin")
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