Qualities
Synonyms for thin
Synonyms for thin: lean and fragile. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for thin
Interchangeable with thin in this sense
Audited under thin's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one thin carries in that sense.
- leanadjective, in the sense "lacking excess flesh"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name thin as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- fragilefragile is an adjective in the sense "lacking substance or significance"
one of these comes from thin's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
lacking excess flesh
You can't be too rich or too thin.
The true synonym
lean
Same sentence, swapped: You can't be too rich or too lean.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot thin is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- fragile
- fat
- suspicious
Where thin turns up in the game
thin is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where thin is the trap
- talladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is marvelous, in the sense "too improbable to admit of belief", and thin is one of the three tiles that lose.
- thickadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is dense, in the sense "having component parts closely crowded together", and thin is one of the three tiles that lose.
- thickadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is chummy, in the sense "associated on close terms", and thin is one of the three tiles that lose.
- wastedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is squandered, in the sense "not used to good advantage", so thin is there to be ruled out.
Play thin
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thin reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. thin carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.