Difference between Thin and Slender

What is the difference between Thin and Slender?

Thin as an adjective is slim, narrow in size, and (of a person or animal) usually carrying little fat. while Slender as an adjective is thin; slim.

Thin

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Slim, narrow in size, and (of a person or animal) usually carrying little fat. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey. Scarce. Overly strict. Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make thin or thinner To become thin or thinner To dilute

Example sentence: Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Slender

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Thin; slim.

Example sentence: In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.

We hope you now know whether to use Thin or Slender in your sentence.

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