| Main Entry: | slim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose weight |
Synonyms: |
diet, reduce, slenderize |
Antonyms: |
gain |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abstain from food |
Synonyms: |
count calories, eat sparingly, fall off, fast, go without, lose weight, reduce, skinny down, slim, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight |
Antonyms: |
gorge, indulge |
| Main Entry: | few |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardly any |
Synonyms: |
exiguous, few and far between, imperceptible, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, not many, not too many, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scarcely any, scattered, scattering, seldom, semioccasional, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, straggling, thin, trifling, uncommon, unfrequent, widely spaced |
Antonyms: |
many, much |
| Main Entry: | fit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, in good physical shape |
Synonyms: |
able-bodied, competent, fit as a fiddle, hale, in good condition, muscled, robust, slim, sound, strapping, toned, trim, up to snuff, well, wholesome, wrapped tight |
Antonyms: |
inadequate, poor, weak |
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
Synonyms: |
brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
Antonyms: |
firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | improbable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not likely |
Synonyms: |
doubtful, dubious, fanciful, far-fetched, flimsy*, hundred-to-one, iffy, implausible, inconceivable, not expected, outside chance, questionable, rare, slim, slim and none, unbelievable, uncertain, unconvincing, unheard of, unimaginable, unlikely, unsubstantial, weak |
Antonyms: |
believable, likely, ostensible, plausible, possible, probable, tenable |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
Synonyms: |
angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole, bony, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lank, lanky, meager, no fat, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stilt, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
Antonyms: |
fat, plump |
| Main Entry: | lithe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible, graceful and slender |
Synonyms: |
agile, lean, lightsome, limber, lissome, loose, nimble, pliable, pliant, slight, slim, spare, supple, thin |
Antonyms: |
awkward, fat, stiff, thick |
| Main Entry: | meager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
Synonyms: |
angular, bare, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, hungry, lacking, lank, lanky, lean, lithe, little, narrow, rattleboned, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skin and bones, skinny, slender, slim, spare, starved, stinted, stunted, tenuous, underfed, wanting, willowy, withered |
Antonyms: |
big, fat, full, large, wide |
| Main Entry: | narrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confined, restricted |
Synonyms: |
attenuated, circumscribed, close, compressed, confining, constricted, contracted, cramped, definite, determinate, exclusive, exiguous, fine, fixed, incapacious, limited, linear, meager, near, paltry, pent, pinched, precarious, precise, scant, scanty, select, set, shrunken, slender, slim, small, spare, strait, taper, tapered, tapering, thin, threadlike, tight |
Antonyms: |
broad, generous, liberal, unconfined, unrestricted, wide |