thin
1. lose thickness;
become thin or thinner (Freq. 2)
• Ant:
thicken
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. make thin or thinner
- Thin the solution
• Ant:
thicken
• Derivationally related forms:
thinner
• Hypernyms:
reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down,
trim back, cut, bring down
• Hyponyms:
draw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. take off weight
• Syn:
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, slim down
• Ant:
gain (for: reduce)
• Derivationally related forms:
reducing (for: reduce)
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Hyponyms:
sweat off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: melt off)
4. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- cut bourbon
• Syn:
dilute, thin out, reduce, cut
• Derivationally related forms:
cutting (for: cut), thinner, thinning, dilution (for: dilute), dilutant (for: dilute)
• Hypernyms:
weaken
• Hyponyms:
water down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
1. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section (Freq. 16)
- thin wire
- a thin chiffon blouse
- a thin book
- a thin layer of paint
• Ant:
thick
• Similar to:
bladed, capillary, hairlike, compressed, flat,
depressed, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer,
see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby,
filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready, fine,
light, hyperfine, paper thin, papery, ribbonlike, ribbony,
sleazy, slender, tenuous, wafer-thin
• See Also:
narrow, lean
• Derivationally related forms:
thinness
• Attrubites:
thickness
2. lacking excess flesh (Freq. 15)
- you can't be too rich or too thin
- "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
• Syn:
lean
• Ant:
fat
• Similar to:
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, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight,
weedy, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen,
wizened, slender, slight, slim, svelte, slender-waisted,
slim-waisted, wasp-waisted, spare, trim, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked,
stringy, wiry, wisplike, wispy
• See Also:
ectomorphic
• Derivationally related forms:
leanness (for: lean), thinness
• Attrubites:
body weight
3. very narrow (Freq. 7)
- a thin line across the page
• Syn:
slender
• Similar to:
narrow
• Derivationally related forms:
thinness, slenderness (for: slender)
4. not dense (Freq. 2)
- a thin beard
- trees were sparse
• Syn:
sparse
• Similar to:
distributed
• Derivationally related forms:
sparseness (for: sparse), sparsity (for: sparse)
5. relatively thin in consistency or low in density;
not viscous (Freq. 1)
- air is thin at high altitudes
- a thin soup
- skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk
- thin oil
• Ant:
thick
• Similar to:
tenuous, rare, rarefied, rarified
• Derivationally related forms:
thinness
• Attrubites:
thickness, consistency, consistence, eubstance, body
6. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- a thin feeble cry
• Ant:
full
• Similar to:
pale
• Derivationally related forms:
thinness
7. lacking spirit or sincere effort
- a thin smile
• Similar to:
spiritless
8. lacking substance or significance
- slight evidence
- a tenuous argument
- a thin plot
• Syn:
flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous
• Similar to:
insignificant, unimportant
• Derivationally related forms:
thinness, tenuity (for: tenuous), slightness (for: slight)
without viscosity
- the blood was flowing thin
• Syn:
thinly
• Ant:
thickly (for: thinly)
• Derived from adjective:
thin (for: thinly)
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