Synonyms of the word

thin

• adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
• adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
• adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
• adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
• adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
• adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
• adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
• adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
• n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
• n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
• v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
• v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
• v. To dilute.
• v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
• adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

anorectic

• adj. Characterised by a lack of appetite, especially as suffering from anorexia nervosa; anorexic.
• adj. Causing a loss of appetite.
• n. A person suffering from anorexia nervosa; an anorexic.
• n. A drug or dietary supplement that reduces the appetite so as to promote weight loss.

anorexic

• adj. Pertaining to, or suffering from anorexia nervosa.
• adj. (by extension) Thin, skinny.
• n. Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa.
• n. A medicine which suppresses appetite.

bladed

• adj. Having a blade; having the specified number of blades.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of blade.

boney

• adj. Alternative spelling of bony.

bony

• adj. resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
• adj. full of bones.
• adj. with little flesh; skinny, thin.
• adj. having prominent bones.

cadaverous

• adj. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

capillary

• adj. of or pertaining to hair.
• adj. pertaining to a narrow tube.
• adj. of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
• n. A narrow tube.
• n. (anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins.

cobwebby

• adj. Having many cobwebs.
• adj. Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
• adj. (figuratively) Old or dated.

compressed

• adj. Pressed tightly together.
• adj. Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of compress.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

depressed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of depress.
• adj. unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent.
• adj. Suffering from clinical depression.
• adj. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

diaphanous

• adj. Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
• adj. Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.

dilute

• v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
• v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
• v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
• v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
• adj. Having a low concentration.
• adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

distributed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of distribute.

ectomorphic

• adj. of or pertaining to an ectomorph.

emaciated

• adj. Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of emaciate.

filamentlike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of a filament.

filamentous

• adj. Having the form of threads or filaments; filamented.

filiform

• adj. Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
• adj. Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.

filmy

• adj. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
• adj. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.

fine

• adj. (heading) Of subjective quality.
• adj. (heading) Of objective quality.
• adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
• adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
• adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
• adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
• adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
• adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to…
• n. Fine champagne; French brandy.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
• v. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
• v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
• v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
• v. To change by fine gradations.
• v. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
• n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
• v. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
• n. (music) The end of a musical composition.
• n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
• n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
• n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
• n. (Britain, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission…

flat

• adj. Having no variations in height.
• adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
• adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
• adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
• adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
• adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
• adj. Uninteresting.
• adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
• adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
• adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
• adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
• adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
• adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
• adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
• adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
• adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
• adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
• adv. So as to be flat.
• adv. Bluntly.
• adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
• adv. Completely.
• adv. Directly; flatly.
• adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
• n. An area of level ground.
• n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
• n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
• n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
• n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
• n. The flat part of something.
• n. A wide, shallow container.
• n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
• n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
• n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
• n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
• n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
• n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
• n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
• n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
• n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
• v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
• v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
• v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
• v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…

flimsy

• adj. Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
• n. Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
• n. (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.

gangling

• adj. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
• n. (nonce word, nonstandard) A member of a gang.

gangly

• adj. Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.

gaunt

• adj. lean, angular, and bony.
• adj. haggard, drawn, and emaciated.
• adj. bleak, barren, and desolate.

gauzy

• adj. having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy.
• adj. figuratively light, giving the effect of haze.

gossamer

• n. A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
• n. A soft, sheer fabric.
• n. Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
• adj. Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

haggard

• adj. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.
• adj. Wild or untamed.
• n. (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
• n. (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
• n. (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
• n. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
• n. (obsolete) A hag.

hairlike

• adj. Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.

hollow-eyed

• adj. Having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of lack of sleep or fear.

hyperfine

• adj. Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.

lank

• adj. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
• adj. (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
• adj. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy).
• adj. (obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
• v. (rare) To become lank; to make lank.

lanky

• adj. (informal) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

narrow

• adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison…
• adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
• adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
• adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted.
• adj. Having a small margin or degree.
• adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened.
• adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
• adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
• adj. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate;…
• v. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
• v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait…

pale

• adj. Light in color.
• adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
• adj. Feeble, faint.
• v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
• v. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
• n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
• n. A wooden stake; a picket.
• n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
• n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
• n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
• n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
• n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
• n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
• n. A cheese scoop.
• n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
• v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

papery

• adj. being like paper.

pinched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pinch.
• adj. Very thin.
• adj. (of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
• adj. Compressed.

rare

• adj. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef…
• adj. Very uncommon; scarce.
• adj. (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
• v. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
• v. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
• adj. (obsolete) early.

rarefied

• adj. Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
• adj. Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
• adj. (of a gas etc.) Less dense than usual; thin.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rarefy.

rarified

• adj. Alternative spelling of rarefied.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rarify.

rawboned

• adj. (of a person) thin and bony, having prominent bones, rugged but not necessarily handsome.

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

reedlike

• adj. Resembling a reed or some aspect of one.

reedy

• adj. Full of, or edged with, reeds.
• adj. (of a sound or voice) high and thin in tone.
• adj. (of a person) tall and thin.

ribbonlike

• adj. Having the characteristics of ribbons.

ribbony

• adj. Like ribbon.

scarecrowish

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of a scarecrow.

scraggy

• adj. Rough and irregular; jagged.
• adj. Lean or thin, scrawny.

scrawny

• adj. Thin, malnourished and weak.

see-through

• adj. transparent or translucent; that can be seen through.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

shriveled

• adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• adj. Collapsed in size.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

shrivelled

• adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• adj. Collapsed in size.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

shrunken

• adj. Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
• v. past participle of shrink.

skeletal

• adj. of, or relating to the skeleton.
• adj. haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt.

skinny

• adj. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
• adj. (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
• adj. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
• n. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
• n. A state of nakedness; nudity.
• n. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
• n. A skinny being.

sleazy

• adj. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
• adj. Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.

slender

• adj. Thin; slim.
• adj. (figuratively) meagre; deficient.
• adj. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

slenderize

• v. (transitive) To make more slender.

slight

• adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
• adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
• adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
• adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
• adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
• v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
• v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
• v. To act negligently or carelessly.
• v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
• v. To make even or level.
• v. To throw heedlessly.
• n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
• n. (obsolete) Sleight.

slim

• adj. Slender, thin.
• adj. (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
• adj. (rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
• adj. (South Africa) Sly, crafty.
• n. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
• n. (East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
• v. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

spare

• adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
• adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
• adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
• adj. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
• adj. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
• adj. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Slow.
• n. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
• n. Parsimony; frugal use.
• n. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
• n. That which has not been used or expended.
• n. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
• n. (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins…
• n. (Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
• v. To show mercy.
• v. To keep.
• v. (transitive) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to…

sparse

• adj. Having widely spaced intervals.
• adj. Not dense; meager.
• v. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.

spindly

• adj. Characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.

spiritless

• adj. Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.

stringy

• adj. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
• adj. (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
• adj. (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.

svelte

• adj. Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
• adj. Refined, delicate.

tenuous

• adj. Thin in substance or consistency.
• adj. insubstantial.

thin

• adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
• adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
• adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
• adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
• adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
• adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
• adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
• adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
• n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
• n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
• v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
• v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
• v. To dilute.
• v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
• adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thinly

• adv. In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.

threadlike

• adj. Having the form of a thread.
• adj. Resembling a thread in length or thinness.

thready

• adj. Of, resembling of capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
• adj. (of a pulse) weak.

transparent

• adj. (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost…
• adj. (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly…
• adj. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
• adj. (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed…

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twiggy

• adj. (of ground or a plant) Having many twigs.
• adj. (of a person) Thin and angular.

twiglike

• adj. Resembling a twig or some aspect of one; thin and brittle.

underweight

• adj. Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
• adj. Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
• adj. (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
• n. The state or quality of being underweight.
• v. (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
• v. (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.

vaporous

• adj. Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.

vapourous

• adj. Alternative form of vaporous.

wafer-thin

• adj. Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
• adj. Extremely marginal or tenuous.

wasp-waisted

• adj. Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.

wasted

• adj. Not profitably used.
• adj. Ravaged or deteriorated.
• adj. Emaciated and haggard.
• adj. (slang) very drunk or stoned.
• adj. (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of waste.

weak

• adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
• adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
• adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
• adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
• adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
• adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
• adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
• adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
• adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
• adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
• adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
• adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
• adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
• adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

weedy

• adj. (Britain) Small and weak; scraggy; ungainly.
• adj. Of or relating to weeds; consisting of weeds.
• adj. Abounding with weeds.
• adj. (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically…

wiry

• adj. Thin, muscular and flexible.

wisplike

• adj. Resembling a wisp or some aspect of one.

wispy

• adj. Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.

withered

• adj. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wither.

wizen

• adj. wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
• v. To wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

wizened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of wizen.
• adj. Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.