thin

/θɪn/

意味: 薄い、痩せた

例文: The ice was too thin to walk on.
　　  氷は薄すぎて歩けなかった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: thin air(薄い空気), thin line(細い線), thin layer(薄い層)

定義: 厚みが少ない、細い、または密度が低いことを表します。物や人が細くて軽い状態を指すことが多いです。また、液体や気体が濃くないことも示します。

thinは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: lose thickness; become thin or thinner
Verb: make thin or thinner
Verb: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Verb: take off weight
Adjective: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Adjective: lacking excess flesh; ; -Shakespeare
Adjective: very narrow
Adjective: not dense
Adjective: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
Adjective: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
Adjective: lacking spirit or sincere effort
Adjective: lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame”
Adverb: without viscosity

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

Verb: Thin the solution
Verb: cut bourbon
Adjective: thin wire
Adjective: a thin chiffon blouse
Adjective: a thin book
Adjective: a thin layer of paint
Adjective: you can’t be too rich or too thin
Adjective: Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look
Adjective: a thin line across the page
Adjective: a thin beard
Adjective: trees were sparse
Adjective: air is thin at high altitudes
Adjective: a thin soup
Adjective: skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk
Adjective: thin oil
Adjective: a thin feeble cry
Adjective: a thin smile
Adjective: slight evidence
Adjective: a tenuous argument
Adjective: a thin plot
Adverb: the blood was flowing thin

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): cut, dilute, flimsy, fragile, lean, lose weight, melt off, reduce, slender, slenderize, slight, slim, slim down, sparse, tenuous, thin, thin out, thinly

Antonyms(反意語): fat, full, gain, thick, thicken, thickly

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change state, reduce, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acidify, alkalize, be born, become, better, blunt, boil, break, burn, calcify, calm, carbonize, carnify, catalyze, chondrify, citrate, close, clot, cloud over, coke, come to, conceive, concentrate, cool, cripple, cross-fertilize, curdle, dampen, de-energize, deflate, denitrify, depress, devitalize, die, dilute, disengage, dissolve, downsize, dress, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, empty, emulsify, enervate, enfeeble, equilibrate, erupt, esterify, etherify, etiolate, explode, fall, fill, fluctuate, freeze, frenchify, gain, get into, get worse, heat, homogenize, inflate, integrate, ionize, liquefy, neutralize, open, ossify, overgrow, precipitate, quench, rarefy, react, reduce, relax, retrench, secularize, shake, shave, shorten, slash, solvate, sorb, sour, spill, subtract, take away, temper, tense, thicken, thin, thin out, thrive, thrombose, unbrace, wake up, wash out, worsen, zonk out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): draw, sweat off, water down

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: cutting, dilutant, dilution, leanness, reducing, slenderness, slightness, sparseness, sparsity, tenuity, thinner, thinness, thinning

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

comparative-er

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: