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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") 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 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")
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