imel je težke čase

1) (having a short distance between opposite sides: thin paper; The walls of these houses are too thin.) tenek

2) ((of people or animals) not fat: She looks thin since her illness.) mršav

3) ((of liquids, mixtures etc) not containing any solid matter; rather lacking in taste; (tasting as if) containing a lot of water or too much water: thin soup.) redek

4) (not set closely together; not dense or crowded: His hair is getting rather thin.) redek

5) (not convincing or believable: a thin excuse.) prazen

- thinly

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adjective ( thinly adverb)

tanek; vitek, mršav, suh; lahek (obleka); nežen, fin, prozoren (tkanina); droben; redek, pičel; slabo obiskan (gledališka predstava ipd.); slab, lahek (pijača), razredčen, precéj redek, vodén; photography nejasen, brez kontrastov; agronomy reven, nerodoviten (zemlja); ničen, prazen (izgovor); plitev, brez vsebine (knjiga)

thin air — redek zrak

thin attendance — slab obisk (predstave itd.)

a thin broth — redka juha

thin captain figuratively British English majhen ploščat prepečenec

a thin house — slabo zasedena, prazna gledališka hiša

not worth a thin dime — prebite pare ne vreden

as thin as a lath — suh kot trska

thin profits — pičel dobiček

on thin ice figuratively na nevarnih tleh, v kočljivem položaju

the thin end of the wedge figuratively prvi začetek, prvi korak

through thick and thin — skozi ogenj in vodo, čez vse zapreke (težave)

he had a thin time — imel je težke čase

that is too thin — slang to je preveč prozorno;

adverb (le v sestavljenkah) tanko, slabo, redko, neznatno

thin-clad — lahko oblečen

thin-faced — ozkega, mršavega obraza

thin-peopled — redko obljuden

thin-spun — tanko preden

(s)tanjšati; razredčiti (gozd); figuratively zmanjšati; intransitive verb (s)tanjšati se; razredčiti se, postati pičel (redek); zmanjšati se, oslabeti, upasti, shujšati; figuratively klinasto se stanjšati

his hair is thinning — lasje se mu redčijo;