Thin

Definition: Thin

Thin

Adjective

1. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint".

2. Lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare.

3. Very narrow; "a thin line across the page".

4. Having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot".

5. Not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse".

6. Relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil".

7. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry".

8. Lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile".

Adverb

1. Without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin".

Verb

1. Lose thickness; become thin or thinner.

2. Make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution".

3. Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon".

4. Take off weight.

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

Date "thin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

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

THIN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Thin

Fewness

Render few; Adjective: reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate.

Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.

Insufficiency

Meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.

Littleness

Weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin; (narrow); granular; (powdery); shrunk; brevipennate.

Narrowness Thinness

Adjective: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like; (filament); finespun, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded; (expand; ); slender as a thread.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.

Rarity

Adjective: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light; cavernous, spongy. (hollow).

Crosswords: Thin

Honey, I thought you said she was thin. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

So stuff yourself and get thin! (The Full Monty; writing credit: Simon Beaufoy)

Well, the thin ones are a little chewy (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

It's a thin line between love and hate (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

Yeah, because I'm thin, I'm single, and I'm neat (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

I was spreading my love too thin (Hard Habit to Break; performing artist: Chicago)

Thru thick and thick to thin (Alright; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

To the bitter end, through the thick and thin (Tell Me It's Real; performing artist: K-Ci & JoJo)

Your veneer is wearing thin and cracking (Bittersweet Me; performing artist: R.E.M.)

I can still feel the touch of your thin blue jeans (RHYTHM OF MY HEART; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Faults are thick when love is thin. (references; author: unknown)

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but he she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. (references; author: unknown)

Mr. Smith's teeth are thin and lethal. (references; author: unknown)

Sick thickets thwarted seven thin sinners from passing through. (references; author: unknown)

Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin. (references; author: unknown)

Thick ticks on three trees brought broth to ten thin tin men. (references; author: unknown)

Tina loved Tim, the thin, twin tinsmith. (references; author: unknown)

Thin Ice (2000)

The Thin Red Line (1964)

Song of the Thin Man (1947)

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

Thin Line Between Love and Hate (performing artist: The Persuaders)

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

References

• The 2001 Report on Thin and Crispy Crust Chilled Pizza: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Ultra Thin External Sanitary Protection Products (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (reference)

• The Maltese Falcon, the Thin Man, Red Harvest: The Thin Man ; Red Harvest (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) (reference)

• Thin capitalisation in het fiscale recht : afbakening van vreemd vermogen ten opzichte van eigen vermogen binnen concernverhoudingen (reference)

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (reference)

• Free to Be Thin Study Guide Abiding Number 3 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Thin Blue Line (reference)

• Thin Solid Films (reference)

• Thin Walled Structures (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Thin Man (reference)

• The Thin Red Line (reference)

• World War II Collection (The Thin Red Line/Patton/Tora! Tora! Tora!/The Longest Day) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Music on a Long Thin Wire (reference)

• The Thin Red Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Memorex Ultra Thin DVD Player (MVD2029) (reference)

• Tinyterm Thin Client Ed 4.3 5U 95/98/NT/W2K/WME/XP (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• General Tools 129X Mini Tubing Cutter for Copper, Aluminum, Brass and Thin Wall Tubing (reference)

• Forrest WW10607100 Woodworker I 10" x 60-Tooth, Thin Kerf Blade for Radial and Table Saws (reference)

• Forrest WW10407100 Woodworker II 10", 40-Tooth Blade for Table Saws (3/32" Thin Kerf) (reference)

• Freud LU74M010 10" 80-Tooth Industrial Thin Kerf Cut-Off Blade (reference)

• Ultrasonex FH300 Flosser Tufts, Thin, Package of 30 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Photograph taken of the back of the eye of an AIDS patient with chorioretinitis, which is an inflammation of the retina and choroid (thin pigmented vascular coat of the eye). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Line drawing showing the lining of the GI tract: colorectal (muscularis). The walls of the digestive tract have four layers of tissue: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. The inner-most layer is the mucosa, a membrane that forms a continuous lining of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus. In the large bowel, this tissue contains cells that produce mucus to lubricate and protect the smooth inner surface of the bowel wall. Connective tissue and muscle separate the muscosa from the second layer, the submucosa, which contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and mucus-producing glands. Next to the submucosa is the muscularis externa, consisting of two layers of muscle fibers-one that runs lengthwise and one that encircles the bowel. The fourth layer, the serosa, is a thin membrane that produces fluid to lubricate the outer surface of the bowel so that it can slide against adjacent organs. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Infected cell (right) shows hypertrophy while the uninfected adjacent endothelial cell (left) remains thin and flat. Transmission electron micrograph. Credit: CDC.

Evaluation of fecal smear technique. Top - good, Middle - too thin, Bottom - too thick. Credit: CDC.

A telltale new warp uncovered in a vast, thin disk of dust encircling the star Beta Pictoris ... Credit: NASA.

NATHANIEL B. PALMER cutting through thin ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Thin rafted sea ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The wake of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER in thin sea ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A North Pacific extratropical cyclone as seen from TIROS VIII, pass 764/762, camera I, frame 13. The easternmost cloud band suggests frontal clouds, the center band with transverse elements appears to be associated with the jet stream, while the westernmost thin band is highly unusual. Picture of the Month , "Monthly Weather Review," May 1964. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Using a differential scanning calorimeter, plant physiologist Christina Walters can detect phase-state changes of water and lipids in seeds. First she cools thin slices of seed tissues sealed in tiny aluminum pans (held in tweezers) to -170°C. The relationship she finds between a seed's water content, temperature at which its heat capacity changes, and size of the change give clues about the nature of glasses that form. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You know, someone in my position---new inventions, new industries---is always on the thin edge of breaking some law or other

That dying warrior, gazing as she passed, Clasped his thin hands and blessed her.

So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy s

Mademoiselle Baptistine was a tall, pale, thin, sweet person

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide

He moved a thin shrunken brown hand gently in the air in time to his praise and his thin quick eyelids beat often over his sad eyes

In the sty the pigs lay panting, close to the fence where a thin shadow fell, and they complained shrilly now and then

His visage was meager, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow

Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

These aerosols thin and loosen secretions. (references)

Leptospires are long, thin motile spirochetes. (references)

I might be thin, average weight, or overweight. (references)

Business

This method of payment provides rather thin coverage against default. (references)

Most producers operate on wafer thin margins and rely on volumes to generate profits. (references)

Retailers in this category operate under razor- thin margins, 1 or 2 percent is common, and rely on volume. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

Trading on Venezuelan stock exchanges is thin and highly concentrated. (references)

Yemen

The tolerance level of Yemen's public for further economic hardship brought by reform is wearing thin. (references)

Slovenia

Resource limitations are a concern for the government, which does not wish to see itself spread too thin. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

Inmates generally sleep on a thin pallet on the concrete floor. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

Once unemployment benefits are exhausted, and with social services stretched thin, the majority of Roma live in desperate poverty. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

STPS and IMSS officials report compliance is reasonably good at most large companies, though federal and state inspectors (fewer than 700 nationwide) are stretched too thin for effective comprehensive enforcement. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

Overall, the banking system is in sound shape although the operating margins remain thin. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "thin": a thin piece ♦ as thin as a wafer ♦ be thin ♦ become thin ♦ dissolution into thin air ♦ dissolve into thin air ♦ get thin ♦ getting thin ♦ go through thick and thin for smb. ♦ grow thin ♦ have a thin skin ♦ have a thin time ♦ introduce the thin end of the wedge ♦ it is the thin end of the wedge ♦ make thin ♦ optically thin plasma ♦ out of thin air ♦ produce out of thin air ♦ skate on thin ice ♦ skate over thin ice ♦ sparse thin ♦ tall and thin ♦ thin air ♦ thin and worn ♦ thin as a rake ♦ thin as a wafer ♦ thin as gauze ♦ thin away ♦ thin board ♦ thin cane ♦ thin client ♦ thin down ♦ thin elongated aggregate ♦ thin excuse ♦ thin fibre ♦ thin film ♦ thin film waveguide ♦ thin house ♦ thin ice ♦ thin layer ♦ thin market ♦ thin of ♦ thin off ♦ thin out ♦ thin paste ♦ thin person ♦ thin plate ♦ thin plate weir ♦ thin rain ♦ Thin section ♦ Thin sections ♦ thin skin ♦ thin soup ♦ thin tread ♦ thin unleavened bread ♦ thin wine ♦ through thick and thin ♦ vanish into thin air ♦ very thin ♦ walk on thin ice ♦ wear thin. Additional references.

Beginning with "thin": thin-air, thin-backed, thin-bladed, thin-bodied, thin-cotton-clad, thin-curtained, thin-cut, thin-down, thin-egg, thin-ended, thin-enough, thin-faced, thin-film, thin-film, thin-film-transistor, thin-flanked, thin-fleshed, thin-haired, thin-layer, thin-leaved bilberry, thin-leaved stringybark, thin-line, thin-lipped, thin-looking, thin-necked, thin-ness, thin-on-top, thin-pencilled, thin-plate, thin-rimmed, thin-section, thin-sectioning, thin-shelled, thin-shelled mussel, thin-shouldered, thin-skinned, thin-sliced, thin-soiled, thin-stalked, thin-stemmed, thin-thigh, thin-waisted, thin-walled.

Ending with "thin": hair-thin, needle-thin, over-thin, paper-thin, pencil-thin, ultra-thin, wafer-thin.

Containing "thin": paper-thin-leaved, Thick-and-thin block.

Afrikaans

skraal (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim), maer (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender), dun (airy, gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Albanian

shpërndahem (break up, disband, disperse, dissipate, grow dim, lift, outreach, reach, scatter, spread, spread out, straggle), rralloj (rarefy), i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, waterless, wizen, wizened), i rralluar (rare, tenuous), i rrallë (curious, far between, infrequent, out of the way, rare, scarce, singular, sparse, stray, uncommon, unwonted), i pambushur, i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, wee), i imët (cramped, detailed, fine, minute, petite, pinpoint, puny, shallow, shoal, small, small minded, tiny, wee, wispy), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, Twiggy, washy), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), holloj (cut, dilute, doctor, emaciate, point, slenderize), hollë (gaunt, lean, perceptively, slender), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), ‏رفيع (astral, elevated, fine, great, polite, sublime, superlative, supreme), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, waste, weaken), ‏جعله ضعيفا, ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, water down), ‏ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, little, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, stingy, wretched), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏سائل (blob, liquid, pouring, questioning, run, running, runny, runny nose, streaming, thinning), ‏رقق (attenuate, foliate, tenderize), ‏غث (lean, meager, meagre, pallid, prosy, scanty, sickly), لطيف (delicate, fine), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, urbane), ‏نحل (attenuate, decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, melt, pervert, pine, resolve, slim, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, svelte), ‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming), ‏هزل (attenuate, badinage, emaciate, extenuate, fun, humor, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, reduce, slim), ‏هزيل القوام, ‏مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, lax, rocky, scruffy, sleazy, slight, slim, tumbledown), ‏في طبقة خفيفة, ‏في قطع رقيقة, ‏تفرق (break up, dissipation, disunion, divide, part, parting, pass off, separate, split up, straggle, strewing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъничък, плитко скроен, блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pale, pallid, paly, wan, washy, watery), беден (fortuneless, humble, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jejune, meager, meagre, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, pokey, poky, poor, poorly off, poverty stricken, scanty, shabby, tenuous), малоброен, мършав (fleshless, gaunt, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, weedy), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), намаляващ (flagging, languishing, remissive, step down, waney), отслабнал (diminished, lean, peaked, peaky, pinched, pinch-faced, spare, withered), отслабвам (abate, become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, become weak, diminish, languish, lose weight, moderate, sag, slim, weaken, wind down, wither), изтънявам (fine, fine-draw, grow thin, slenderize, taper, thin away, wear away), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, tight), слабея (languish, peak and pine, reduce, thin down), тънея, тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, threadlike, thready, willowy), разводнен (dilute, diluted, washy, watered, watery, wishy washy), разводнявам (dilute, water down), разреден (dilute, diluted, rare, reduced, small, tenuous), редея (thin out), рядък (close, fine, infrequent, occasional, one in a thousand, rare, recherche, singular, sparse, uncommon, washy), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), слабичък, оредявам. (various references)

Catalan

prim (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Chinese 

薄 (belittle, despise, frivolous, meagre, mean, peppermint, slight, small, to approach, to go near, ungenerous, unkind), 片 (a slice, disc, flake, piece, sheet, slice), 瘦 (lean, tight), 細 (fine, minutely, slender), 稀薄, 疏 (negligent, sparse). (various references)

Czech

tenký (fine, skinny, slim, small, tenuous). (various references)

Danish

tynd (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender), mager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender). (various references)

Dutch

mager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender), sprietig (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender), schraal (barren, coarse, gaunt, in short supply, infertile, lean, meager, rough, scanty, scarce, skimpy, skinny, slender), dun (airy, fluid, gaunt, lean, liquid, slender). (various references)

Esperanto

malkoncentri (dilute, disperse, rarefy), malgrasa (gaunt), maldika (gaunt, lean, slender), magra (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny). (various references)

Faeroese

rak (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny), klænur (gaunt, graceful, lean, slender, slim), fátækur (gaunt, lean, meager, miserable, poor, skimpy, skinny). (various references)

Farsi 

کم جمعیت , بطوررقیق , رقیق (Attenuate, Ethereal, Rare, Watery), رقیق وشدن , رقیق کردن (Attenuate, Dilute, Extenuate), ابکی (Soupy, Watery), سبک (Buoyant, Gossamer, Levigate, Levity, Mode, Order, Phraseology, Portable, Soft, Structure, Style, Volatile), باریک (Capillary, Linear, Narrow, Slat, Slender, Slice, Strait, Tender, Tenuous), لاغرکردن (Atrophy, Attenuate, Gaunt), نزار (Heartsick, Lean, Meager), کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Weaken), کم چربی , کم مایه (Trivial), کم پشت (Sparse), کم پشت کردن , نازک کردن (Attenuate, Extenuate), نازک نازک , لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scraggy, Scrannel, Skinny, Slight, Slim, Slink, Spare, Toom, Wizen). (various references)

Finnish

ohut (rarefied), laiha (lean, meagre, scanty, spare). (various references)

French

maigre (thin person), mince (thinning), grêle. (various references)

Frisian

tin (gaunt, lean, slender), meager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny). (various references)

German

mager (emaciated, fatless, gaunt, hungry, infertile, lank, lean, leanly, low fat, meager, meagre, poor, rawboned, scant, scanty, skimpy, skinny, slender, weak), dünn (fine, finely, flimsy, gaunt, lank, lean, rare, rarefied, skinny, sparse, sparsely, spindly, tabular, tenuous, tenuously, thinly, thinn, watery, weak), hager (gaunt, lank, lean, rawboned, spare). (various references)

Greek 

ισχνός (puny, scraggy, tenuous). (various references)

Hawaiian

hollë (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Hebrew 

דק (delicate, fine, flimsy, lean, slender, slight, slim, spindly). (various references)

Hungarian

vékony (attenuate, fine, flimsy, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sheer, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thinner, wispy), híg (dilute, extenuate, liquid, tempered, tenuous, to grout, washy, weak), gyér (scant, scanty, scattered, sparse). (various references)

Icelandic

mjór (gaunt, lean, slender, slim), þunnur (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Indonesian

tipis (marginal, sheer), lemah (effete, enervate, foible, puny, weak), kurus (gaunt, lean, meagre, skinny, withered), kerempeng (emaciated), garas (cat, gobble up), encer (aqueous, liquid, quick, smart, washy, weak), cair (fluid, melt, weak). (various references)

Italian

magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scraggy, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, thinly), sottile (delicate, fine, gaunt, keen, lean, sharp, shrewd, slender, slight, slim, small, subtile, subtle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

細い (fine, slender). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きはく (diluted, drive, lean, rarefied, rarified, soul, sparse, spirit, vigor, weak), ひんそう (seedy-looking), うすば (molar), うすで (light, of thin make, shallow, slight wound), うすい (diluted, rain water, watery, weak), ほそい (fine, slender), ほそみ (narrow, slender), シン , るい (base, class, evil influence, family, genus, implication, involvement, kind, sort, trouble, weak). (various references)

Korean 

얇은. (various references)

Malay

tipis (gaunt, lean, slender), kurus (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Manx

thannaghey (attenuate, bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, emaciate, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduce, reduction, shallow, slenderize, slim), keyley (narrowing, slenderize), keylagh (attenuate, attenuation, slenderize, thinning), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lanky, lean, narrow, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, tapered, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy). (various references)

Norwegian

tynn (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Occitan

prim, linge, fin (fine, slender). (various references)

Papiamen

flaku (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim), flako (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim), delegá (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim). (various references)

Pig Latin

inthay.(various references)

Portuguese

delgado (elongate, fine, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, wispy), magro (angular, bony, contracted, gaunt, haggard, jejune, lank, lean, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, genteel, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, nobby, out-and-out, posh, refined, select, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, well-bred, well-made, wispy), delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, fine, flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingerly, kid-glove, kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out-and-out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, ticklish, urbane, well-made). (various references)

Romanian

transparent (clear, fine-spun, flimsy, gauzy, glasslike, glassy, hyaloid, lucent, pellucid, perspicuous, translucent, transparent), se subţia (fine), aerian (aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, breezy, ethereal, featherlike, gaseous, gauzy, hazy, skyey, unsubstantial), deşirat (clever, lank, lean, loose, unwound), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, ticklish, tricky, weak), descãrnat (emaciated, fleshless, scraggy), pierit (downcast, sickly), pirpiriu, rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), rar (choice, exceptional, far between, infrequent, lank, lanky, occasionally, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thinly, uncommon, unusual), rarefiat (attenuate, tenuous), se împrãştia (blow away, break, break up, disband, dissipate, lift, scatter, shrink away, spill), îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, purblind, slender, slim, tight), se rãri (Ravel), uscãţiv (lean, scraggy, spare, wizened), sfrijit (emaciated, gaunt, lean, scrawny, wizened), slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, unmanly, weak, weakling, weedy), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, undermine, weaken), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, washy, weak, weakly), subţiat, subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thinly, weak, wiry), subţirel (thinnish), superficial (cursory, external, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, tinsel, trivial, yeasty), supt (emaciated, gaunt, hollow-cheeked, suck, sucking, wasted), uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, with a wet finger), se dilua. (various references)

Russian 

тонкий (delicate, fine, finespun, gauzy, keen, papery, sleazy, slender, slim, slimline, subtle, twiggy, wispy). (various references)

Scottish

tana. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scone, scrannel, sleazy, slender, slight, tenuous, weak, wispy), slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), redak (infrequent, rare, scarce, spare, sparse), razrediti (attenuate, dilute, rarefy), prorediti (space), mršav (emaciated, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny). (various references)

Spanish

fino (choice, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fine, gaunt, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, polished, refined, semiprecious, sharp, sheer, shrewd, slender, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle), delgado (delicate, fine, flimsy, slenderly built, slight, slim, spidery, trickle), flaco (foible, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weakly, weakness), descarnado (fretting, plucking). (various references)

Sranan

mangri (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny), fini (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Swedish

tunn (fine, flimsy, gaunt, lean, light, rare, sheer, sleazy, slender, tenuous, wispy), mager (gaunt, hungry, ill-conditioned, lank, lean, meagre, parsimonious, peaked, raw boned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare), gles (airy, scattered, sparse), gallra (cull, screen, sort out, thin out, weed out). (various references)

Tagalog

payát (gaunt, lean, slender). (various references)

Thai

เสี่ยงในการพูด (บางสิ่ง) (skate on thin ice). (various references)

Turkish

zayıflamak (be on the wane, decay, decline, fade, grow lean, grow thin, loose flesh, peak, reduce, slim, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken), zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), verimsiz (abortive, barren, emaciated, fruitless, idle, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, infertile, jejune, lean, poor, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unthrifty), sudan (flimsy, slight, sorry, Sudan, sudanese, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, watery), seyrelmek (rarefy, thin down, thin of, thin out), seyrekleşmek, seyrek (few and far between, infrequent, rare, scarce, scattered, seldom, sparse, straggly, tenuous), inceltmek (attenuate, diminish, fine away, fine down, reduce, refine, sharpen, slenderize, subtilize, thin down, thin of, thin out), incelmek (become slimer, fine away, fine down, fine off, get thinner, refine, slenderize, slim, subtilize, taper, taper off, thin down, thin of, thin out), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty). (various references)

Turkmen 

suwuk (fluid, liquid), яuka (delicate, slender), inзesagt, inзe, igli (skinny), hor (lean, scrawny). (various references)

Ukrainian

стоншуватися, рідкий (diffluent, fluid, liquid, rare, runny, slushy, sparse, weak, wet), худнути (attenuate, emaciate, grow thin, lose weight, reduce, slenderize, slim, thin away), худий (angular, attenuate, emaciate, emaciated, ill-conditioned, jejune, lanky, lean, meager, meagre, scrannel, skimpy, spare, spiny), тонко (finely), тонкий (acute, capillary, gauzy, nice, sleazy, slim, soft, spidery, subtile, subtle, tenuous), ненасичений (unsated), загострювати (acuminate, aggravate, edge, escalate, keen, peak, rankle, subtilize), економно (economically,