Thin Air

Definition: Thin Air

Thin Air

Noun

1. Nowhere to be found in a giant void; "it vanished into thin air".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Unsubstantiality

Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery.

Crosswords: Thin Air

She should not disappear into thin air. (Cinderella; writing credit: Charles Perrault; Joseph Schrank)

Thin Air (1969)

Into Thin Air (1985)

The Dean of Thin Air (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "thin air": dissolution into thin air ♦ dissolve into thin air ♦ out of thin air ♦ produce out of thin air ♦ vanish into thin air. Additional references.

Finnish

haihtua kuin tuhka tuuleen (vanish into thin air). (various references)

German

herzaubern (produce out of thin air). (various references)

Greek 

έγινε καπνός (he vanished into thin air), γίνομαι καπνόσ (dissolution into thin air), γίνομαι καπνός (dissolve into thin air, vanish into thin air). (various references)

Hungarian

ritka levegő. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煙になる (to vanish in thin air), 空で (from memory, from thin air, off the top of one's head). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そらで (from memory, from thin air, off the top of one's head), けむりになる (to vanish in thin air). (various references)

Pig Latin

inthay airay

Spanish

evaporarse (evaporate, vanish into thin air). (various references)

Turkish

yer yarılıp içine girmek (dissolve into thin air, vanish into air), ortadan kaybolmak (be lost, clear off, clear out, cut, disappear, dissolve into thin air, hive off, make oneself scarce, recede), kayıplara karışmak (dissolve into thin air, vanish). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tahini.

-2 letters: airth, riant, train.

-3 letters: airn, airt, anti, hair, hant, hart, hint, inia, inti, rain, rani, rant, rath, tahr, tain, tarn, than, thin, thir.

-4 letters: ain, air, ait, ani, ant, art, hat, hin, hit, nah, nit, nth, rah, ran, rat, ria, rin, tan, tar, tin.

-5 letters: ah, ai, an, ar, at, ha, hi, in.

+1 letter: airthing, trichina.

+2 letters: historian, inhabiter, reinhabit, trichinae, trichinal, trichinas.

+3 letters: anchoritic, anorthitic, antheridia, antiheroic, charioting, herniating, herniation, historians, inearthing, inhabiters, interchain, interfaith, reinhabits, tarnishing, thorianite, wainwright.

+4 letters: achondritic, affrighting, anarchistic, annihilator, antheridial, antheridium, anthracitic, antiheroine, antiphrasis, antirrhinum, antitarnish, antithyroid, artisanship, authorising, authorizing, brachiating, brachiation, cantharidin, chrismation, christiania, chromatinic, granolithic, haircutting, hairstyling, handwriting, harmonicist, herniations, hibernating, hibernation, inbreathing, ingathering, inheritable, inheritance, interchains, interparish, inthralling, nightmarish, pharyngitis, reinhabited, rhetorician, rhizoctonia, straighting, thorianites, traineeship, unchristian, wainwrights, withdrawing, xiphisterna.