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thin adjective (NOT FAT)

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• thinShe's on a diet but I think she's already too thin.
• skinnyYou should eat more. You're much too skinny.
• scrawnyHe hated his scrawny legs.
• slimHe was tall, very slim, with pale, deep-set eyes.
• slenderHe put his arms around her slender waist.

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be as thin as a rake UK (mainly US be as thin as a rail)

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thin adjective (TRANSPARENT)

thin adjective (FEW)

thin adjective (AIR)

thin adjective (FLOWING EASILY)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

thin adjective (WEAK)

Idioms

thin verb (LESS THICK)

thin something down Thin the sauce down with a little stock.

thin verb (FEWER)

Phrasal verb

(Definition of thin from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

thin | American Dictionary

thin adjective [-er/-est only] (NOT DEEP)

thin adjective [-er/-est only] (NOT FAT)

Models must be tall and thin.

thin adjective [-er/-est only] (FEW)

thin adjective [-er/-est only] (FLOWING EASILY)

thin adjective [-er/-est only] (WEAK)

Idiom

thin verb [I/T] (BECOME FEWER)

[ I ] Traffic thins out after seven o’clock.

(Definition of thin from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of thin

thin

Carrying ply fabric so that it is thinner includes holding; it's thus more than fabrics of comparable comprehensive.

Before we do this, we need to make them thinner.

The sequence comprises alternations of coarse tuff units that fine upwards and thinner lapilli-rich tuff horizons.

The haze of nostalgia is thinned by humor.

Between the world wars that tradition had thinned.

Even in a more overtly alienated mood, the marrow of the complexity of the love-nature relationship is by no means thinned.

Seedlings were thinned to one plant per hole.

Seedlings were thinned to three per pot (capacity 900 ml) and held in place with foam bungs.

Trees that have not been thinned and have set a large crop will therefore tend to abscise far more fruits than trees that were thinned.

Only barren, diseased and lodged plants were thinned at later stages of crop growth.

The wall of the left ventricle was again hypoplastic and thinned.

Eight seeds were planted, and subsequently thinned to three following germination.

If farmers have to maintain a desired population at harvest, soil moisture, fertility and pest management must be improved and thinning should be completed earlier.

Farmers delayed thinning primarily to obtain more fodder.

Consider "baldness," a favored concept among philosophers of vagueness, though hardly one that those of us with thinning hair like to dwell upon.

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