The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - thinadj.

1) slim, slender, lean, spare, slight, lanky, spindly, skinny, thin as a rail or reed or rake, wispy, twiggy, skeletal, gaunt, gangling, bony, emaciated, cadaverous, meagre, scrawny, all skin and bones, scraggy, undernourished, underfed, underweight, undersized, puny, sparse, hollow-cheeked, (half-) starved, pinched, withered, shrunken, shrivelled (up) : Douglas is quite thin as a result of his illness. 2) sparse, unsubstantial, poor, scant, insufficient, inadequate, slight, worthless, unimportant, deficient, skimpy, unplentiful, paltry, piddling: This year's harvest has been very thin. 3) attenuated, threadlike, stringlike, pencil-thin, fine; narrow: Draw a thin line between the columns. Please slice the bread thin. 4) flimsy, weak, feeble, slight, unsubstantial, insubstantial, fragile, frail, poor, lame; unbelievable, unconvincing: Harry gave some thin excuse for being late. 5) airy, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, sheer, light, delicate, chiffon, silky, silken, gauzy, translucent, see-through, transparent: She had nothing but a thin negligee to protect her from the cold. 6) watery, watered down, dilute(d) , weak, unsatisfying: My dinner, as usual, consisted of thin gruel and a dry crust. 7) thin on the ground. rare, uncommon, scarce, few (and far between) , unusual, hard to come by or find, scant, scanty: Good managers are thin on the ground. --v. 8) Often, thin down. draw out, attenuate, reduce, trim, cut down, prune; sharpen: At one end, thin the dowel to a point. 9) Often, thin down or out. dilute, water (down) , decrease, reduce, diminish: They always thin the wine with some water. The crowd thinned out after a while.