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Thinner   /θˈɪnər/   Listen
Thinner

noun
1.
A diluting agent.  Synonyms: diluent, dilutant.


Thin

adjective
(compar. thinner; superl. thinnest)
1.
Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.  "A thin chiffon blouse" , "A thin book" , "A thin layer of paint"  Antonym: thick.
2.
Lacking excess flesh.  Synonym: lean.  "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"  Antonym: fat.
3.
Very narrow.  Synonym: slender.
4.
Not dense.  Synonym: sparse.  "Trees were sparse"
5.
Relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous.  "A thin soup" , "Skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk" , "Thin oil"  Antonym: thick.
6.
(of sound) lacking resonance or volume.  Antonym: full.
7.
Lacking spirit or sincere effort.
8.
Lacking substance or significance.  Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous.  "A tenuous argument" , "A thin plot" , "A fragile claim to fame"



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"Thinner" Quotes from Famous Books



... absence, noted his father's condition better than the rest. The old man was ill, very ill. As tall as ever, as austere and imposing, and as little given to words. But he was growing thinner. His fierce eyes were sinking deeper into their sockets. There was little left to him now except his massive frame. His neck, once as sturdy as a bull's, showed the tendons and the arteries under the loose, ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... all the time while Marcella's little English mother lay on her couch in the window that looked over Lashnagar, and cried. She had lain on this couch for nearly two years now, whiter and thinner every day. Marcella adored her and used to kiss her white, transparent hands, and call her by the names of queens and goddesses in the legends she had read, trying to stretch her own ten years of experience to match her mother's thirty-five so that she could be her friend. ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... instance, after the yellow excrement was voided, the fluid ceased to have any smell, and appeared like curdled milk, and then a thinner fluid, and some mucus, were evacuated; did not these seem to partake of the chyle, of the mucous fluid from all the cells of the body, and lastly, of the atmospheric moisture? All these facts may be easily observed by any one, ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... did not recognize Taung S'Ali, owing to his change of costume. Through the thinner smoke he could see ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... speed. The whining shriek of the air against its plates grew thinner and higher. Listening, one could almost feel and hear the sucking of the mighty power that pulled it at an ever greater pace through the ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak


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