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thin

adjective
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
Antonyms: thick Similar: bladed, capillary, hairlike, compressed, flat, depressed, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby, filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready, fine, flimsy, light, hyperfine, paper thin, papery, sleazy, slender, tenuous, wafer-thin, chiffon, ribbonlike, ribbony - lacking excess flesh; "you can''t be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
Synonyms: lean Antonyms: fat Similar: anorexic, anorectic, bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed, fine-drawn, gangling, gangly, lanky, lank, spindly, rawboned, reedy, reedlike, twiggy, twiglike, scarecrowish, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened, slender, slight, slim, slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted, spare, trim, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, stringy, wiry, wisplike, wispy - very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
Synonyms: slender Similar: narrow
verb
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
Antonyms: thicken, inspissate - make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
Antonyms: thicken, inspissate - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
Synonyms: cut, dilute, reduce, thin out
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