Having little thickness or breadth; thin, slender, fine. Now rare.

Having a thin consistency; rarefied; pervasive; = subtle, adj. 11. Cf. subtile matter n. at compounds 2.

Having little thickness or breadth; thin, fine; = subtle, adj. 9a. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

? Fine.

Very small in bulk, diameter, or thickness; extremely thin or slender.

Of small cross section in proportion to length; slender, tenuous, attenuated. (Usually said of a thing more or less cylindrical, as a wire, rod…

Slender, shrunken, thin; diminutive.

Having little thickness or solidity in proportion to extent of surface; slight or slim in size or structure.

= tenuous, adj. 1.

Slender, slim, delicate, graceful, neat. (A Scottish or northern word, introduced in 19th cent. into English literature.)

Fine, thin, slender.

Spun or drawn out to a very thin, narrow, or fine form; delicate in texture; flimsy. Frequently (and in earliest use) in figurative contexts.

Slender, thin, fine; insubstantial. Obsolete.

Attenuated, thin, slender.

Slender, thin, lean. Also figurative.

Narrow; slender, slight; neat.

Thin or slender in form; of small transverse measure or calibre; slim.

Slender, (gracefully) thin.

= gracile, adj.

Slender, thin. Also figurative.

Esp. of yarn or fabric: made from or characterized by unevenly spun, slender threads. Cf. twitter, n.2 1a.

Slender, thin; tapered, reduced to thinness.

Characterized by slenderness or slimness of growth or form.

Designating a device, piece of equipment, etc., that is lower, slimmer, or that protrudes less than is usual for objects of its type.

Resembling a match; fine and slender.

Slim, narrow, gracefully thin in style or appearance. Occasionally absol. as n.