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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long and lean |
| Synonyms: | gangling, gangly, lanky, leggy, long-legged, long-limbed, reedy, skinny, spindling, spindly, thin, weedy |
| Antonyms: | chubby, dumpy, fat, thick |
| Main Entry: | slight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin, small in build |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, broomstick, dainty, delicate, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, light, reedy, shadow, skeleton, skinny, slender, slim, spare, stick, twiggy |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, large, tall, thick |
| Main Entry: | stringy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long, thin |
| Synonyms: | fibrous, gangling, gristly, lank, lanky, muscular, reedy, ropy, sinewy, spindling, spindly, threadlike, tough, wiry |
| Main Entry: | tenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, thin |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, attenuate, attenuated, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine, flimsy, gossamer, insignificant, insubstantial, light, narrow, nebulous, questionable, rare, rarefied, reedy, shaky, sketchy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, twiggy |
| Antonyms: | healthy, significant, stable, strong, substantial, thick |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, light, slender |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened |
| Antonyms: | dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faint, soft |
| Synonyms: | bated, dim, distant, dull, feeble, gentle, imperceptible, inaudible, indistinct, low, muffled, pale, poor, quiet, reedy, slight, small, stifled, thin, unaccented, unstressed, whispered |
| Antonyms: | loud, noisy, potent, strong |
| Main Entry: | grassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grass-grown |
| Synonyms: | carpeted, grasslike, green, lawnlike, lush, matted, reedy, sedgy, sodded, sowed, tangled, turfy, verdant |
| Main Entry: | lank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, weedy, wizened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twiggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, weedy, wizened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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