thin

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/ˈθɪn/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Having a small distance between opposite sides.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Having little fat on the body.

Examples

  • Making nothing of the cold, he went out in thin clothes.

  • The gold was beaten into thin plates.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈfɪn/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

  2. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

  3. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

More examples

In context

  • Cut the vegetables into thin strips.

  • thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering

  • thin wire; thin string

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”). Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.