Text: 1 having a noticeably small amount of body fat<after her bout with pneumonia, she looked thinner>Synonymslean, skinny, slender, slim, spareRelated Wordsangular, bony, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy; lank, lanky, rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry; anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, wizened; puny, meager (or meagre), slightNear Antonymsbeefy, bulky, chunky, fleshy, heavy, heavyset, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, husky; dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, squat, stubby; paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; buxom; fleshed-out, full, roundAntonymschubby, corpulent, fat, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly, rotund, tubby 2 being of less than usual width<the thin threads of a cobweb>— see narrow 1 3 not containing very much of some important element<the evidence for that oddball theory is pretty thin>— see weak 3

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