delicate vs thin

delicate

adj
  • Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship. 

  • Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol. 

  • Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste. 

  • Easily damaged or requiring careful handling. 

  • circa 1660, John Evelyn (author), William Bray (editor), The Diary of John Evelyn, volume I of II (1901), entry for the 19th of August in 1641, page 29 

  • Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour. 

  • Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious. 

  • Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings. 

  • Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes. 

  • Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines. 

  • Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite. 

  • Intended for use with fragile items. 

  • Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful. 

noun
  • A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie. 

  • A moth, Mythimna vitellina 

thin

adj
  • Poor; scanty; without money or success. 

  • Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space. 

  • Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe. 

  • Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions. 

  • Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering. 

  • Of low viscosity or low specific gravity. 

  • Of a route: relatively little used. 

  • Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt. 

  • Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. 

  • Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full. 

noun
  • Any food produced or served in thin slices. 

  • A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole. 

adv
  • Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state. 

verb
  • To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains. 

  • To make thin or thinner. 

  • To dilute. 

  • To become thin or thinner. 

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