Synonyms: reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin, melt off, lose weight
Definition: take off weight
Similar words: turn, change state
Definition: undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
Usage: We turned from Socialism to Capitalism; The people turned against the President when he stole the election
Synonyms: dilute, cut, reduce, thin, thin out
Definition: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Usage: cut bourbon
Synonyms: thin
Definition: make thin or thinner
Usage: Thin the solution
Similar words: cut, cut back, cut down, bring down, trim, trim back, trim down, reduce
Definition: cut down on; make a reduction in
Usage: reduce your daily fat intake; The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Synonyms: thin
Definition: lose thickness; become thin or thinner
Similar words: turn, change state
Definition: undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
Usage: We turned from Socialism to Capitalism; The people turned against the President when he stole the election
Definition: not dense
Usage: a thin beard; trees were sparse
Similar words: distributed
Definition: spread out or scattered about or divided up
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
Similar words: anorectic, anorexic
Definition: suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
Similar words: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched
Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Usage: emaciated bony hands; a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys; eyes were haggard and cavernous; small pinched faces; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
Similar words: hollow-eyed, deep-eyed, sunken-eyed
Definition: characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
Similar words: gangling, gangly, lanky
Definition: tall and thin
Definition: long and lean
Similar words: rawboned
Definition: having a lean and bony physique
Usage: a rawboned cow hand
Similar words: reedlike, reedy
Definition: resembling a reed in being upright and slender
Similar words: twiggy, twiglike
Definition: thin as a twig
Similar words: scarecrowish
Definition: resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged
Usage: a forlorn scarecrowish figure
Similar words: scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, boney, weedy
Definition: being very thin
Usage: a child with skinny freckled legs; a long scrawny neck
Similar words: withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken
Definition: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Usage: the old woman's shriveled skin; he looked shriveled and ill; a shrunken old man; a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws-W.F.Starkie; he did well despite his withered arm; a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
Similar words: slender, slight, slim, svelte
Definition: being of delicate or slender build
Usage: she was slender as a willow shoot is slender- Frank Norris; a slim girl with straight blonde hair; watched her slight figure cross the street
Similar words: slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted
Definition: having a small waist
Definition: thin and fit
Usage: the spare figure of a marathon runner; a body kept trim by exercise
Similar words: spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
Definition: having long slender legs
Definition: lean and sinewy
Similar words: wisplike, wispy
Definition: thin and weak
Usage: a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet- Edmund Wilson
Synonyms: thin
Definition: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
Usage: a thin feeble cry
Synonyms: tenuous, thin, fragile, flimsy, slight
Definition: lacking substance or significance
Usage: slight evidence; a tenuous argument; a thin plot; a fragile claim to fame
Similar words: insignificant, unimportant
Definition: devoid of importance, meaning, or force
Synonyms: thin
Definition: lacking spirit or sincere effort
Usage: a thin smile
Similar words: spiritless
Definition: lacking ardor or vigor or energy
Usage: a spiritless reply to criticism
Synonyms: thin
Definition: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Usage: thin wire; a thin chiffon blouse; a thin book; a thin layer of paint
Similar words: bladed
Definition: composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade
Usage: bladed arsenopyrite
Similar words: capillary, hairlike
Definition: long and slender with a very small internal diameter
Usage: a capillary tube
Similar words: flat, compressed
Definition: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Similar words: depressed
Definition: flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
Similar words: diaphanous, gossamer, vaporous, vapourous, transparent, cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer
Definition: so thin as to transmit light
Usage: a hat with a diaphanous veil; filmy wings of a moth; gauzy clouds of dandelion down; gossamer cobwebs; sheer silk stockings; transparent chiffon; vaporous silks
Similar words: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready
Definition: thin in diameter; resembling a thread
Similar words: fine
Definition: thin in thickness or diameter
Usage: a fine film of oil; fine hairs; read the fine print
Similar words: light
Definition: very thin and insubstantial
Usage: thin paper; light summer dresses
Similar words: hyperfine
Definition: extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components
Usage: hyperfine structure
Similar words: paper thin
Definition: thin as paper
Usage: her blouse was paper thin
Similar words: papery
Definition: thin and paperlike
Usage: papery leaves; wasps that make nests of papery material
Similar words: ribbonlike, ribbony
Definition: long and thin; resembling a ribbon
Usage: ribbonlike noodles
Similar words: sleazy
Definition: of cloth; thin and loosely woven
Usage: the coat has a sleazy lining
Similar words: slender
Definition: having little width in proportion to the length or height
Usage: a slender pole
Similar words: tenuous
Definition: very thin in gauge or diameter
Usage: a tenuous thread
Similar words: wafer-thin
Definition: very thin
Usage: wafer-thin sheets of metal
Synonyms: thin
Definition: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
Usage: air is thin at high altitudes; a thin soup; skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk; thin oil
Similar words: tenuous
Definition: having thin consistency
Usage: a tenuous fluid
Similar words: rare, rarefied, rarified
Definition: having low density
Usage: rare gasses; lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air
Definition: very narrow
Usage: a thin line across the page