| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, light, slender |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened |
Antonyms: |
dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transparent, fine |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, attenuated, delicate, diaphanous, filmy, flimsy, gossamer, paper-thin, permeable, rare, rarefied, refined, see-through, sheer, slight, slim, subtile, subtle, tenuous, translucent, unsubstantial, wafer-thin, wispy |
Antonyms: |
dense, solid, thick |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient, weak |
Synonyms: |
diluted, feeble*, flat*, flimsy*, implausible, improbable, inadequate, inconceivable, incredible, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, meager, poor, questionable, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, shallow, sketchy, skimpy, slight, sparse, stretched, superficial, thick*, transparent, unbelievable, unconvincing, unpersuasive, unsubstantial, untenable, vapid, weak-kneed |
Antonyms: |
efficient, solid, strong |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diluted |
Synonyms: |
diffuse, dilute, dispersed, fine, light, rarefied, refined, runny, subtle, watery, weak, wishy-washy |
Antonyms: |
concentrated, thick, undiluted |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make diluted or less dense |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, cook, cut, cut back, decrease, delete, diminish, disperse, doctor, edit, emaciate, expand, extenuate, irrigate, lace, needle, prune, rarefy, reduce, refine, shave, spike, trim, water, water down, weaken, weed out |
Antonyms: |
beef up, thicken |
| Main Entry: | adulterate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter or debase, often for profit |
Synonyms: |
alloy, amalgamate, attenuate, blend, cheapen, commingle, contaminate, cook, corrupt, cut*, defile, degrade, denature, depreciate, deteriorate, devalue, dilute, dissolve, doctor up, doctor*, falsify, impair, infiltrate, intermix, irrigate, lace, make impure, mingle, mix, phony up, plant*, pollute, shave, spike*, taint, thin, transfuse, vitiate, water down, weaken |
Antonyms: |
clarify, clean, cleanse, distill, filter, free, purify, refine |
| Main Entry: | airy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate or ethereal |
Synonyms: |
dainty, diaphanous, flimsy, fragile, frail, frivolous, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, intangible, light, rare, rarefied, tenuous, thin, vaporous, visionary, volatile, weightless, wispy |
Antonyms: |
heavy |
| Main Entry: | anorexic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
Synonyms: |
bulimic, emaciated, malnourished, sickly looking, thin, without appetite |
| Main Entry: | attenuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
Synonyms: |
abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine, vitiate |
Antonyms: |
expand, increase, intensify, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
Synonyms: |
ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
Antonyms: |
flushed, lifelike, lively |