thin, slender, slim, slight, tenuous mean not thick, broad, abundant, or dense. thin implies comparatively little extension between surfaces or in diameter, or it may imply lack of substance, richness, or abundance. THIN definition: having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick.

Context Explanation

See examples of thin used in a sentence. 1. In a thin manner: Spread the varnish thin if you don't want it to wrinkle. 2.

Insight Material

So as to be thin: Cut the cheese thin. thin adjective (FEW) having only a small number of people or a small amount of something: adv. in a thin manner. sparsely; not densely. so as to produce something thin: Slice the ham thin.

Final Conclusion

v.t. to make thin or thinner (often fol. by down, out, etc.). v.i. to become thin or thinner; become reduced or diminished (often fol. by down, out, off, etc.): The crowd is thinning out.

thin (third-person singular simple present thins, present participle thinning, simple past and past participle thinned) (transitive) To make thin or thinner. quotations If you describe an argument or explanation as thin, you mean that it is weak and difficult to believe. However, the evidence is thin and, to some extent, ambiguous. Even if the optimists' theory is true, it still seems a thin argument against reform.