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adj. having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

adj. lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

thin

adj. 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"

ethereal, gossamer

adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

slender, slim

adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

slender, thin

adj. very narrow; "a thin line across the page"

slender, slight, slim, svelte

adj. 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"

skinny

adj. of or relating to or resembling skin

thin, lean

adj. lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

narrow

adj. very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

delicate, fragile, frail

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

rare, rarefied, rarified

adj. having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

watery

adj. "thin watery soup"

capillary, hairlike

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

light

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "light summer dresses"

filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready

adj. thin in diameter; resembling a thread

flimsy

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

hyperfine

adj. extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"

papery

adj. thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"

sleazy

adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

breakaway

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

jerry-built, shoddy

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

little, small

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

namby-pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

pale

adj. not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

wan

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

puny

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

thin

adj. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"

vulnerable

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

washy

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

thick

adj. not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"

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