Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Narrowness. Thinness

Nouns
  • narrowness etc. adj.
  • closeness, exility
  • exiguity etc. (little) Littleness. line
  • hair's breadth, finger's breadth
  • strip, streak, vein. monolayer
  • epitaxial deposition [Eng.]. thinness etc. adj.
  • tenuity
  • emaciation, macilency, marcor. shaving, slip etc. (filament) Filament
  • thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone. middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass
  • ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass
  • ravine etc. Interval. narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering
  • contraction etc. Contraction.
Verbs
  • be narrow etc. adj.
  • narrow, taper, contract etc. Contraction
  • render narrow etc. adj.
  • waste away.
Adjectives
  • narrow, close
  • slender, thin, fine
  • thread-like etc. (filament) Filament
  • finespun, gossamer
  • paper-thin
  • taper, slim, slight-made
  • scant, scanty
  • spare, delicate, incapacious
  • contracted etc. Contraction
  • unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. Expansion
  • slender as a thread. [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent
  • lank, lanky
  • weedy, skinny
  • scrawny slinky [U.S.]
  • starved, starveling
  • herring gutted
  • worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]
  • thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer
  • hatchet-faced
  • lantern-jawed. attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned. monomolecular.