| Main Entry: | threadlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | like a thread |
Synonyms: |
capillaceous, capilliform, filamentous, filar, ropy |
| Main Entry: | fibrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stringy |
Synonyms: |
coarse, fibroid, hairy, muscular, pulpy, ropy, sinewy, stalky, threadlike, tissued, veined, wiry, woody |
Antonyms: |
nonfibrous |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, delicate; sheer |
Synonyms: |
diaphanous, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
Antonyms: |
coarse, rough, thick |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | slender/slim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin, not heavy |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, beanpole, beanstalk, fine, insubstantial, lean, lithe, narrow, reedy, skeleton, skinny, slight, spare, stalky, stick, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, threadlike, trim, twiggy, willowy |
Antonyms: |
chubby, fat, heavy, overweight, plump, thick |
| Main Entry: | stringy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long, thin |
Synonyms: |
fibrous, gangling, gristly, lank, lanky, muscular, reedy, ropy, sinewy, spindling, spindly, threadlike, tough, wiry |
| 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: | lank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
Synonyms: |
all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, weedy, wizened |
| Main Entry: | pulverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine |
Synonyms: |
diaphanous, dusty, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverulent, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
| Main Entry: | pulverulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine |
Synonyms: |
diaphanous, dusty, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverous, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |