thin




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"

Antonym:
  • thick

Nearest:
  • bladed
  • capillary; hairlike
  • compressed; flat
  • depressed
  • diaphanous; filmy; gauzy; gauze-like; gossamer; see-through; sheer; transparent; vaporous; vapourous; cobwebby
  • filamentous; filiform; filamentlike; threadlike; thready
  • fine
  • light
  • hyperfine
  • paper thin
  • papery
  • ribbonlike; ribbony
  • sleazy
  • slender
  • tenuous
  • wafer-thin


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