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thinner
noun
1 thinner
A diluting agent.
synonyms: diluent, dilutant.
Dutch: oplosmiddel, verdunner
Polish: rozcieńczalnik
Moby thesaurus: anticoagulant, chromogen, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, dead-color, diluent, dilutant, dissolvent, dissolving agent, distemper, drier, dye, dyestuff, exterior paint, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flux, ground, interior paint, liquefacient, liquefier, medium, opaque color, paint, pigment, prime coat, primer, priming, resolutive, resolvent, solvent, stain, tempera, tinction, tincture, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, vehicle, wash, wash coat ... show more.
thin
verb
1 thin
Lose thickness; become thin or thinner.
Roget 38:
subduct,
subtract;
deduct,
deduce;
bate,
retrench;
remove,
withdraw,
take from,
take away;
detract.
garble,
mutilate,
amputate,
detruncate†;
cut off,
cut away,
cut out;
abscind†,
excise;
pare,
thin,
prune,
decimate;
abrade,
scrape,
file;
geld,
castrate;
eliminate.
diminish
etc.
36;
curtail
etc.
(shorten)
201;
deprive of
etc.
(take)
789;
weaken.
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2 thin
Make thin or thinner.
Dutch: verdunnen
3 thin
4 thin
adjective
1 thin
Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
Roget 640:
insufficient,
inadequate;
too little
etc.
32;
not enough
etc.
639;
unequal to;
incompetent
etc.
(impotent)
158;
weighed in the balance and found wanting;"
perfunctory
etc.
(neglect)
460;
deficient
etc.
(incomplete)
53;
wanting,
etc.
v.;
imperfect
etc.
651;
ill-furnished,
ill-provided,
ill-stored,
ill-off.
slack,
at a low ebb;
empty,
vacant,
bare;
short of,
out of,
destitute of,
devoid of,
bereft of
etc.
789;
denuded of;
dry,
drained.
unprovided,
unsupplied†,
unfurnished;
unreplenished,
unfed†;
unstored†,
untreasured†;
empty-handed.
meager,
poor,
thin,
scrimp,
sparing,
spare,
stinted;
starved,
starving;
halfstarved,
famine-stricken,
famished;
jejune.
scant
etc.
(small)
32;
scarce;
not to be had,
not to be had for love or money,
not to be had at any price;
scurvy;
stingy
etc.
819;
at the end of one's tether;
without resources
etc.
632;
in want
etc.
(poor)
804;
in debt
etc.
806.
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Roget 193:
little;
small
etc.
(in quantity)
32;
minute,
diminutive,
microscopic;
microzoal;
inconsiderable
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
exiguous,
puny,
tiny,
wee,
petty,
minikin†,
miniature,
pygmy,
pigmy†,
elfin;
undersized;
dwarf,
dwarfed,
dwarfish;
spare,
stunted,
limited;
cramp,
cramped;
pollard,
Liliputian,
dapper,
pocket;
portative†,
portable;
duodecimo†;
dumpy,
squat;
short
etc.
201.
impalpable,
intangible,
evanescent,
imperceptible,
invisible,
inappreciable,
insignificant,
inconsiderable,
trivial;
infinitesimal,
homoeopathic†;
atomic,
subatomic,
corpuscular,
molecular;
rudimentary,
rudimental;
embryonic,
vestigial.
weazen†,
scant,
scraggy,
scrubby;
thin
etc.
(narrow)
203;
granular
etc.
(powdery)
330;
shrunk
etc.
195;
brevipennate†.
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Roget 103:
few;
scant,
scanty;
thin,
rare,
scattered,
thinly scattered,
spotty,
few and far between,
exiguous;
infrequent
etc.
137;
rari nantes [Lat.];
hardly any,
scarcely any;
to be counted on one's fingers;
reduced
etc.
v.;
unrepeated†.
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Polish: chudy, cienki
2 thin
Lacking excess flesh:
— You can't be too rich or too thin.
synonym: lean.
Roget 203:
narrow,
close;
slender,
thin,
fine;
thread-like
etc.
(filament)
205;
finespun†,
gossamer;
paper-thin;
taper,
slim,
slight-made;
scant,
scanty;
spare,
delicate,
incapacious†;
contracted
etc.
195;
unexpanded
etc.
(expand)
etc.
194†;
slender as a thread.
[in reference to people or animals]
emaciated,
lean,
meager,
gaunt,
macilent†;
lank,
lanky;
weedy,
skinny;
scrawny slinky [U.S.];
starved,
starveling;
herring gutted;
worn to a shadow,
lean as a rake
[Chaucer];
thin as a lath,
thin as a whipping post,
thin as a wafer;
hatchet-faced;
lantern-jawed.
attenuated,
shriveled,
extenuated,
tabid†,
marcid†,
barebone,
rawboned.
monomolecular.
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Polish: chudy
3 thin
Very narrow:
— A thin line across the page.
synonym: slender.
4 thin
Not dense:
— A thin beard.
synonym: sparse.
Polish: nieobfity
5 thin
Relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous.
Polish: niegęsty, rzadki, luźny, rzadziutki, wolny, rzadziuchny, wodnisty
6 thin
of sound Lacking resonance or volume.
7 thin
Lacking spirit or sincere effort.
8 thin
Lacking substance or significance:
— A thin plot.
synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous.
Roget 322:
rare,
subtile,
thin,
fine,
tenuous,
compressible,
flimsy,
slight;
light
etc.
320;
cavernous,
spongy
etc.
(hollow)
252.
rarefied
etc.
v.;
unsubstantial;
uncompact†,
incompressed†;
rarefiable†.
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adverb
1 thin
Without viscosity:
— The blood was flowing thin.
synonym: thinly.
Moby thesaurus: Lenten, Sanforize, Sanforized, Spartan, a bit thick, a bit thin, abate, abrade, abstemious, abstract, absurd, acute, adulterate, adulterated, airy, ankle-deep, argute, ascetic, atomic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, backset, baptize, bate, beyond belief, blow off, bony, boyish, cadaverous, cast forth, cheeseparing, chiffon, chinchy, chintzy, clear, clear as crystal, clear away, colliquate, consume, consumed, corky, corpuscular, creaky, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, cultivate, culture, cursory, curtail, cut, cut down, dainty, dead, decoagulate, decoct, decrease, deduct, deficient, delicate, deliquesce, delve, depreciate, depthless, derogate, detract, diaphane, diaphanous, diffuse, dig, dilute, diluted, diminish, disparage, dispel, dispersed, dissipate, dissolve, doubtable, doubtful, drain, draw out, dress, dried-up, drive away, dry up, dubious, dubitable, dwarfed, dwarfish, ear-piercing, eat away, emacerate, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embryonic, epidermal, erode, ethereal, etherealize, evanescent, evaporate, exiguous, expand, extenuate, extract, fade, fallow, feeble, fertilize, file away, filmy, fine, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, fluidify, fluidize, flux, force, fragile, frail, frugal, fuse, gangling, gaseous, gaunt, gauzy, germinal, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, granular, gruelly, half-starved, hard of belief, hard to believe, harrow, high, high-pitched, hoe, hold in solution, howling, impair, impalpable, imperceptible, implausible, imponderable, impoverished, improbable, inadequate, inane, inappreciable, inconceivable, incredible, indifferent, indiscernible, infinitesimal, infrequent, infuse, insipid, insubstantial, insufficient, intangible, invisible, irrigate, jejune, keen, keening, knee-deep, lacy, lame, lank, lanky, leach, lean, lessen, light, light-pervious, limited, limpid, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, list, lixiviate, lucid, macerate, meager, meagerly, mean, melt, melt down, microcosmic, microscopic, mild, milk-and-water, miserly, misty, molecular, mulch, narrow, niggardly, nonopaque, not deep, not deserving belief, on the surface, open to doubt, open to suspicion, paltry, papery, pappy, parch, parched, parsimonious, passing belief, peekaboo, pellucid, penetrating, percolate, piddling, piercing, pinched, piping, plow, poor, preposterous, preshrink, preshrunk, problematic, prune, pulpy, puny, purify, questionable, rake, rare, rarefied, rarefy, reduce, reedy, refine, refined, remove, retrench, revealing, ridiculous, rub away, run, sapless, savorless, scant, scantily, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, screaky, screeching, screechy, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, sear, see-through, seldom met with, seldom seen, shallow, shallow-rooted, sharp, sharpen, sheer, shoal, shorten, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, shrink, shrivel, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, silken, silky, skeletal, skimp, skimping, skimpy, skin-deep, skinny, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, solubilize, solve, spade, spare, sparing, sparingly, sparse, sparsely, spiceless, spindly, spotty, sprinkled, squeaking, squeaky, staggering belief, stale, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subatomic, subduct, subsistence, subtile, subtilize, subtle, subtract, superficial, surface, suspect, suspicious, svelte, sylphlike, take away, take from, tall, tasteless, tenuous, thaw, thick, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tight, till, till the soil, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, treble, trim, trivial, twiggy, ultramicroscopic, ululant, unbelievable, unclot, unclouded, uncommon, uncompact, uncompressed, unconvincing, underfed, undernourished, undersized, underweight, unearthly, unflavored, ungodly, unimaginable, unimportant, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprofound, unsatisfying, unsavory, unseeable, unsubstantial, untenable, unthinkable, unusual, unworthy of belief, vague, vapid, vaporous, volatilize, wailing, washy, wasp-waisted, waste, waste away, wasted, wasted away, water, water down, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weaken, wear away, weazen, weazened, weed, weed out, whining, whistling, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy, withdraw, wither, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, work, worthless ... show more.
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