- A diluting agent
"Water is a common thinner used in many laboratory procedures";
- dilutant, diluent
- Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
"a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"
- Lacking excess flesh
"you can't be too rich or too thin";
- lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn]
- Very narrow
"a thin line across the page";
- slender, slimline
- Not dense
"a thin beard";
- sparse
- Flowing easily or low in density; not viscous
"skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
"a thin feeble cry"
- Lacking spirit or sincere effort
"a thin smile"
- Lacking substance or significance
"a thin plot";
- flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous
Derived forms: thinners
See also: anorectic, anorexic, bladed, body, body weight, bony, cadaverous, capillary, cobwebby, compressed, consistence, consistency, deep-eyed, depressed, diaphanous, distributed, ectomorphic, emaciated, filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, filmy, fine, flat, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, haggard, hairlike, hollow-eyed, hyperfine, insignificant, lank, lanky, light, narrow, pale, paper thin, papery, pinched, rare, rarefied, rarified, rawboned, reedlike, reedy, ribbonlike, ribbony, scarecrowish, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, see-through, sheer, shriveled [US], shrivelled [Brit, Cdn], shrunken, skeletal, skinny, sleazy [archaic], slender, slender-waisted, slight, slim, slim thick, slim-waisted, spare, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, spindly, spiritless, stringy, substance, sunken-eyed, svelte, sylphic, sylphlike, tenuous, thickness, threadlike, thready, transparent, trim, twiggy, twiglike, underweight, unimportant, vaporous, vapory [US], vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapoury [Brit, Cdn], wafer-thin, wasp-waisted, wasted, weedy, wiry, wisplike, wispy, withered, wizen [archaic], wizened
Type of: agent
Encyclopedia: Thinner
Thin, Robert