thin – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of thin

Adjective: thin

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativethinner
Superlativethinnest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
  • It was no mystery at all, or a mystery covered only with the thinnest and most transparent veil, that forced abortion is a common practice among Turkish women. The horrible secret as to the means and the drugs to be employed is pretty generally known, and where ignorance prevails there are "wise women," old hags, professional abortists, who go about the country relieving matrons of their burthens for a few piastres apiece […] [1853, Charles MacFarlane, Kismet: or, The doom of Turkey, page 66:]
  • Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. [1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:]
  • The newest form of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study. It’s only 0.47 nanometers thick, which is one million times thinner than a human finger nail. […] This makes it the thinnest unsupported gold ever created and it could be used in electronics and medical devices going forward.
  • The gold is made up of two layers of atoms stacked on top of each other. But don’t let the thin structure fool you. [2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:]
  • However, the misconception regarding skin hitboxes was created by a subset of players who believed that wearing thinner skins enhanced their gameplay. [2024 March 16, Rishabh Sabarwal, “Fortnite hitboxes: Do skins have a competitive advantage?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2024:]
  • thin wire; thin string
  • Typically, osteoporosis causes the amount of trabecular bone to be reduced and the bone to become thinner, while the intertrabecular space enlarges and the interconnected structure of trabecular bone is disrupted. [2015 July 6, “Assessment of the Impact of Zoledronic Acid on Ovariectomized Osteoporosis Model Using Micro-CT Scanning”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2022:]
  • thin person
  • Water is thinner than honey.
  • The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
  • Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. [1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • a thin, tight-lipped smile
  • thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams [1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):]
  • a thin disguise
  • In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001. [2016, Hartmut Wolf, Peter Forsyth, David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation, page 105:]
  • Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […] [1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92:]

Adjectives inflected like thin

tan, wan, thin,

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. 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. See: German Adjectives 'dünn', Dutch Adjectives 'dun', Swedish Adjectives 'tunn', Latin Adjectives 'tenuis', Irish Adjectives 'tanaí', Polish Adjectives 'cienki'.