Thin

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Narrow

Synonyms Narrow, pencil-thin, attenuated, wafer-thin, papery, fine, threadlike, attenuate, and paper-thin.

Lightweight

Synonyms Lightweight, fine, floaty, diaphanous, insubstantial, gauzy, filmy, transparent, translucent, light, delicate, flimsy, gossamer, sheer, gauze-like, chiffony, and see-through.

Slim

Synonyms Slim, slender, willowy, sylphlike, slight, underweight, scraggy, angular, hollow-cheeked, as thin as a rake, like a matchstick, size-zero, emaciated, cadaverous, wasted, undernourished, lanky, stringy, gangling, weedy, gracile, macilent, lean, rangy, svelte, spare, skinny, scrawny, bony, raw-boned, gaunt, as thin as a reed, sticklike, skin-and-bones, skeletal, like a skeleton, pinched, underfed, spindly, gangly, reedy, spindle-shanked, and starveling.

Sparse

Synonyms Sparse, wispy, meagre, poor, insufficient, scanty, thinning, paltry, inadequate, and scattered.

Watery

Synonyms Watery, weak, diluted, runny, slap, watered down, dilute, thinned down, and sloppy.

Insubstantial

Synonyms Insubstantial, slight, poor, shallow, threadbare, insufficient, unbelievable, flimsy, feeble, weak, tenuous, inadequate, unconvincing, and implausible.

Weak

Synonyms Weak, feeble, soft, reedy, faint, small, low, and high-pitched.

Decrease

Synonyms Become less dense/numerous, diminish, lessen, disperse, scatter, cut back, decrease, dwindle, become less in number, dissipate, prune, and trim.

Example Sentences

He wore a thin jacket in the cold.

The soup was too thin to enjoy.

She has thin, delicate fingers.

The paper is very thin and tears easily.

He has a thin layer of hair on his head.

The ice looks thin and unsafe.

Her voice sounded thin over the phone.

A thin stream of water trickled down.

He sliced the bread very thin.

The air was thin at the mountain peak.