thin-skinned

US pronunciation

American soundthin skinned

thinskinned

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Past ending sound

thin - skinned -> thin skinned

Myanmar meaning

နာတတ်သော။ အရေပါးသော။

Full entry

thin /θÇn/ adj (-nner, -nnest )

၁။ ပါးသော။ ပါးလွှာသော။ သေးသော။ a thin line/wire ❍ a thin sheet of metal/slice of bread/layer of glue ❍ thin fingers/lips ❍ a thin cotton dress ❍ The ice is too thin to stand on. ❍ The walls are so thin you can hear what they're saying in the next room ❍ The rope was wearing thin in one place.
၂။ (sometimes derog ) ပိန်သော။ ကြုံလှီသော။ a tall, thin man ❍ have thin legs ❍ thin cattle ❍ Her illness had left her looking pale and thin. Compare FAT adj ၁
၃။ ချည့်နဲ့သော။ အားနည်းသော။ a thin voice/smile.
၄။ မထူသော။ ပါးသော။ ကျဲသော။ နည်းသော။ a thin mist ❍ thin clouds ❍ We had difficulty breathing in the thin mountain air.
၅။ (အရည်) မပျစ်သော။ ကျဲသော။ thin gravy.
၆။ (လူနေစသည်) ကျဲသော။ မစိပ်သော။ His hair's/He's getting rather thin on top (ie He is starting to lose his hair). ❍ a region with a thin population ❍ a thin audience.
၇။ နည်းသော။ ပါးသော။ thin profits/support ❍ Trading on the stock market has been thin.
၈။ မခိုင်လုံသော။ ယုတ္တိမတန်သော။ ညံ့သော။ a thin (ie not convincing) excuse ❍ a thin (ie easily discovered) disguise ❍ I found her latest novel pretty thin.
adv ပါးပါး။ Don't spread it too thin.
v (-nn- ) ~ (sth ) (out ); ~ sth (down ) ပါးသွားသည်။ ကျဲလာ သည်။ ကျဲသွားသည်။ ကျဲအောင်လုပ်သည်။ ရှင်းပစ်သည်။ The clouds thinned and the sun came out. ❍ He/His hair is thinning on top. ❍ The traffic was thinning out. ❍ thin out seedlings (ie remove some to help others to grow better) ❍ thin (down) paint with white spirit.
❏ have a thin time (of it) [IDM ] (infml ) ဒုက္ခများသည်။ ရှုံးသည်။ The team's been having a thin time (of it) recently—not a single win in two months.
❏ thin down [PHRV ] ပိန်ကျသွားသည်။ He's thinned down a lot since he went on a diet.
❏ the thin end of the wedge [IDM ] (esp Brit ) ပြဿနာ အစ။ မီးစ။ ပြာသာဒ်ကိုလောင်မည့်အမှိုက်။ Newspaper editors regard the government's intention to regulate the press as the thin end of the wedge.
❏ thinly adv ပါးပါး။ ကျဲကျဲ။ ယဲ့ယဲ့။ အပေါ်ယံယိက။ thinly sliced ham ❍ Sow the plants quite thinly. ❍ She smiled thinly. ❍ His novel is a thinly disguised autobiography. thinness /'θÇnnǝs/ n [U]
❏ thinner /'θÇnǝ(r)/ n [U, C] (also thinners [pl]) သုတ်ဆေး၊ အရောင်တင်ဆီတို့ကို ကျဲအောင် ဖျော်သောပစ္စည်း။ သင်နာ။
❏ thin-skinned adj နာတတ်သော။ အရေပါး သော။
❏ vanish, etc into thin air [IDM ] ပျောက်ခြင်းမလှပျောက်သွားသည်။

More examples

The box was covered with a thin layer of dust.
There’s a thin crack in the glass.
Cut the cucumbers and tomatoes into thin slices.
Thin lips
Charles was thin and very tall.
She has been ill and is much too thin.
Thin bony arms
A thin moustache
A plate of meat covered with thin gravy
Dexter won by a thin margin (=a small number of votes, points etc).
I heard a thin high cry.
In the mountains, the air is thinner.

Synonyms

skinny, slim, slender, bony, lean, emaciated, skeletal, slight, lanky, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, cadaverous, cook, cracked, cut, cut back, decrease, deficient, delete, delicate, diaphanous, diffuse, dilute, diluted, diminish, disperse, dispersed, doctor, edit, emaciate, ethereal, expand, extenuate, featherweight, feeble, filmy, fine, flat, flimsy, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gauzy, gossamer, haggard, high, implausible, improbable, inadequate, inconceivable, incredible, insipid, insubstantial, insufficient, irrigate, lace, lame, lank, light, lightweight, meager, narrow, needle, paper-thin, peaked, permeable, pinched, pole, poor, prune, puny, questionable, rangy, rare, rarefied, rarefy, rawboned, reduce, reedy, refine, refined, rickety, runny, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, see-through, shadow, shallow, shave, sheer, shrill, shriveled, sketchy, skimpy, slinky, small, spare, sparse, spike, spindly, squeaky, stalky, starved, stick, stilt, stretched, subtile, subtle, superficial, tenuous, thick, thin out, threadlike, tinny, translucent, transparent, trim, twiggy, twiglike, unbelievable, unconvincing, undernourished, underweight, unpersuasive, unsubstantial, untenable, vapid, wafer-thin, wan, wasted, water, water down, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weaken, weed out, wishy-washy, wispy, wizened

Antonyms

adequate, beef up, big, broad-minded, colorful, concentrated, condense, dark, dense, develop, efficient, enlarge, fat, flushed, full, generous, grow, heavy, increase, inflated, intelligent, large, liberal, obese, plump, reasonable, resonant, solid, strengthen, strong, substantial, sufficient, thick, thicken, undiluted, unrefined, wide