thin

thin is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as adverb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
2. superlative. Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
3. superlative. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
4. superlative. Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
5. superlative. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
6. superlative. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
7. superlative. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
8. adverb. Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
9. transitive verb. To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
10. intransitive verb. To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
11. verb. take off weight

    Synonyms: reduce, slenderize, slim

12. verb. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

    "cut bourbon"

    Synonyms: cut, dilute, reduce

13. verb. make thin or thinner

    "Thin the solution"

14. verb. lose thickness; become thin or thinner
15. adjective. not dense

    "a thin beard"

    "trees were sparse"

    Synonyms: sparse

16. adjective. lacking excess flesh-Shakespeare

    "you can't be too rich or too thin"

    "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"

    Synonyms: lean

17. adjective. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume

    "a thin feeble cry"

18. adjective. lacking substance or significance; a fragile claim to fame"

    "slight evidence"

    "a tenuous argument"

    Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous

19. adjective. lacking spirit or sincere effort

    "a thin smile"

20. adjective. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section

    "thin wire"

    "a thin chiffon blouse"

21. adjective. relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous

    "air is thin at high altitudes"

    "a thin soup"

22. adjective. very narrow

    "a thin line across the page"

    Synonyms: slender

23. adverb. without viscosity

    "the blood was flowing thin"

    Synonyms: thinly

Synonyms

reduce, slenderize, slim, cut, dilute, sparse, lean, flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, slender, thinly

Anagrams

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Common word forms

thins, thinly, thinned, thinner, thinness, thinnest, thinning

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