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Definition of THIN

1

having a noticeably small amount of body fat <after her bout with pneumonia, she looked thinner>

Synonyms bony (also boney), fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim, spare, svelte

Related Words clean-limbed, trim; sylphlike, willowy; angular, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, wiry; lank, lanky, rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, twiggy, waspish, weedy; anorectic (also anoretic), anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, wizened; meager (or meagre), puny, slight

Near Antonyms beefy, bulky, chunky, fleshy, heavy, heavyset, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, husky; dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, squat, stubby; paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; buxom, zaftig (also zoftig); fleshed-out, full, hippy, round

Antonyms chubby, corpulent, fat, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly, rotund, tubby

2

being of less than usual width <the thin threads of a cobweb>

Synonyms fine, hairline, needlelike, paper-thin, skinny, slender, slim, slim-jim, thin, ultrathin

Related Words attenuate, attenuated, elongate (or elongated), linear; bottleneck, close, compressed, condensed, constricted, contracted, squeezed, tight, tightened; lanky, rangy, reedy, shoestring, spindly, stalky, stringy, twiggy, willowy, wispy; lank, spare

Near Antonyms chunky, squat, stocky, stumpy, thick, thickset; bulky, massive, voluminous; thickish, widish

Antonyms broad, fat, wide

3

not containing very much of some important element <the evidence for that oddball theory is pretty thin>

Synonyms dilute, diluted, thin, thinned, washy, watery, weakened

Related Words adulterated, watered-down

Near Antonyms enriched, fortified; concentrated, condensed, evaporated

Antonyms full-bodied, rich, strong