Usually means: Extremely thin, almost transparent slice.
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  1. wafer-thin: Merriam-Webster
  2. wafer-thin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wafer-thin, wafer-thin: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wafer-thin: Vocabulary.com
  5. wafer-thin: Wordnik
  6. wafer-thin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wafer-thin: Wiktionary
  8. wafer-thin: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. wafer-thin: Dictionary.com
  10. wafer-thin: Rhymezone
  11. wafer-thin: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wafer-thin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. wafer-thin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
▸ adjective:  Extremely marginal or tenuous.

Similar:
thin as a wafer, waferlike, waferish, wafery, thin as a rail, gossamer-thin, waify, paper-thin, stick-thin, thin as a barber's cat, more...

Opposite:
thick, bulky, substantial, hefty, chunky

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Similar:
thin as a wafer, waferlike, waferish, wafery, thin as a rail, gossamer-thin, waify, paper-thin, stick-thin, thin as a barber's cat, more...

Opposite:
thick, bulky, substantial, hefty, chunky



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