thin

1. 1

   Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

   • thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
2. 2

   Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

   • thin wire; thin string
3. 3

   Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

   • thin person
4. 4

   Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

   • Water is thinner than honey.
5. 5

   Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.

   • The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
6. 6

   Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.

7. 7

   Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

   • a thin, tight-lipped smile
8. 8

   Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.

   • a thin disguise
9. 9

   Of a route: relatively little used.

   • In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
10. 10

    Poor; scanty; without money or success.

    • Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]

syn. skinny · slender · slim · svelte · waifish · scrawny · watery · sparse

ant. thick

1. 1

   A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.

2. 2

   Any food produced or served in thin slices.

   • chocolate mint thins
   • potato thins

1. 1

   To make thin or thinner.transitive

   • Exhausted fathers thinned the blood, You curse the legacy of pain; Darling of an infected brood, You feel disaster climb the vein.
2. 2

   To become thin or thinner.intransitive

   • The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
3. 3

   To dilute.

4. 4

   To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.

   • So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree fo

1. 1

   Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

   • seed sown thin