| thin-shelled mussel | mussel with thin fragile shells having only rudimentary hinge teeth |
| wafer | thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) |
| wafer | a small thin crisp cake or cookie |
thin person
skin and bones
scrag | a person who is unusually thin and scrawny |
bilberry thin-leaved bilberry
mountain blue berry
Viccinium membranaceum | erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries |
white stringybark
thin-leaved stringybark
Eucalyptusd eugenioides | stringybark having white wood |
| thin air | nowhere to be found in a giant void, it vanished into thin air |
| wafer | a small adhesive disk of paste, used to seal letters |
reduce
melt off
lose weight
slim
slenderize
thin
slim down | take off weight |
dilute
thin thin out reduce cut | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture, cut bourbon |
| thin out | make sparse, thin out the young plants |
| thin out | become sparser, Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out |
| thin | make thin or thinner, Thin the solution |
| thin | lose thickness, become thin or thinner |
wear
wear off
wear out
wear down
wear thin | deteriorate through use or stress, The constant friction wore out the cloth |
sparse
thin | not dense, a thin beard, trees were sparse |
| wafer-like | resembling a thin crisp wafer |
slim-bodied
thin-bodied
slender-bodied | having a slim body |
| thin lean | lacking excess flesh, you can't be too rich or too thin, Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare |
| thin | (of sound) lacking resonance or volume, a thin feeble cry |
huffy
thin-skinned
feisty
touchy | quick to take offense |
flimsy fragile
slight
tenuous
thin | lacking substance or significance, slight evidence, a tenuous argument, a thin plot, a fragile claim to fame |
| thin | lacking spirit or sincere effort, a thin smile |
| thin | of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section, thin wire, a thin chiffon blouse, a thin book, a thin layer of paint |
| paper thin | thin as paper, her blouse was paper thin |
| wafer-thin | very thin, wafer-thin sheets of metal |
| thin | relatively thin in consistency or low in density, not viscous, air is thin at high altitudes, a thin soup, skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk, thin oil |
slender
thin | very narrow, a thin line across the page |
| thin-shelled | of animals or plants that have a thin shell |
out of thin air
out of nothing
from nowhere | without warning, your cousin arrived out of thin air |
thinly
thin | without viscosity, the blood was flowing thin |
| wafer-thin | very thin, it was cut wafer-thin |