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Thin
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This clue has been rated as VERY COMMON
We've rated Thin as VERY COMMON as it is a very popular clue with cruciverbalists.

29 November 2021
Last seen in: Evening Standard Quick Crossword

We found 48 answers for the crossword clue 'Thin', the most recent of which was seen in the Evening Standard Quick Crossword.

This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.

We have given Thin a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Thin as an answer itself some 210 times.

Thin is a single word clue made up of 4 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'Evening Standard Quick Crossword' on Friday, 12 November 2021 with the answer being WEEDY, but the most popular answer for this clue is LEAN.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

Definitions and usage

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  • Take off weight
  • Not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
  • Lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
  • Lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
  • Lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"
  • 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"
  • Without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin"
  • Make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
  • (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
  • 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"
  • Very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
  • Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
  • Lose thickness; become thin or thinner

Anagrams

We found 1 anagrams for the word 'Thin'.

  • hint An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"

Crossword Answers

3 Letters

CUT
With parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

4 Letters

BONY
Having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"

FINE
Money extracted as a penalty

LANK
Long and thin and often limp; "grown lank with fasting"; "lank mousy hair"

LEAN
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

RARE
Not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books"

SLIM
Take off weight

WEAK
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

5 Letters

GAUNT
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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"

GAUZY
So thin as to transmit light; "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"

LANKY
Tall and thin

MINTS

PRUNE
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

REEDY
Having a tone of a reed instrument

SPARE
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

WEEDY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

WISPY Chris Roberson
Lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"

6 Letters

DILUTE
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

FLIMSY
Not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

MEAGRE
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

NARROW
A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water

REDUCE
Take off weight

SCANTY
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

SKINNY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

SLIGHT
A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

SPARSE
Not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

SVELTE
Being of delicate or slender build; "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"

THINLY
In a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"

WATERY
Relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery substance"; "a watery color"

7 Letters

ASARAIL

CAMERON

FRAGILE
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

MELTOFF
Take off weight

SCRAWNY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

SLENDER
Being of delicate or slender build; "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"

SPIDERY
Relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

SPINDLY Les
Long and lean

TENUOUS
Lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

THINOUT
Become sparser; "Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out"

8 Letters

HAIRLINE
The natural margin formed by hair on the head

SLIMDOWN
Take off weight

WAIFLIKE Howard

9 Letters

EMACIATED
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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"

10 Letters

LOSEWEIGHT
Take off weight

SLENDERIZE
Take off weight

11 Letters

UNDERWEIGHT
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

12 Letters

UNCONVINCING
Not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

13 Letters

UNSUBSTANTIAL
Lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

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