thin
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Example
“thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering”
Other meanings
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
“thin wire; thin string”
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
“thin person”
Antonyms
- thick
Related words
- microthin
- nanothin
- nonthin
- overthin
- prethin
- quasithin
- semithin
- superthin
- thincoat
- thinnet
- thinnish
- thinny
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "þynne".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “thin” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.