Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin.
- adjective Thin and delicate in build; gracefully slim.
- adjective Small in amount or extent; meager.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Small in width or diameter as compared with the length; slim; thin: as, a slender stem or stalk; a slender waist.
- In zoology, gracile; tenuous; attenuated: specifically noting various animals and some parts of animals.
- Weak; feeble; slight; lacking body or strength: as, a slender frame or constitution; slender hopes; slender comfort.
- Meager; small; scant; inadequate: as, slender means; slender alms.
- Moderate; inconsiderable; trivial.
- Not amply supplied.
- In phonography, the opposite of
broad or open. Thus, ē and ī are slender vowels. - Synonyms Fragile, flimsy, frail.
- Scanty, sparing, lean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim.
- adjective Weak; feeble; not strong; slight.
- adjective Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight.
- adjective Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful.
- adjective Spare; abstemious; frugal.
- adjective (Phon.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of
broad .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Thin ;slim . - adjective
palatalized
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective small in quantity
- adjective very narrow
- adjective being of delicate or slender build
- adjective having little width in proportion to the length or height
- adjective moving and bending with ease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies.
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Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies.
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Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels.
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Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies.
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Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies.
but first, a sandwich and a nap thecoughlin 2009
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At one point Miss Drexel "seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers," throws the skirt under the wheels to give the machine's wheels purchase.
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Diclofenac has lead to global population declines as high as 99 percent in slender-billed and other vulture species.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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It's horrible that we must sometimes be reminded how slender is the thread that holds our lives together.
Kindertotenlieder 2007
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I was buying and enjoying these diet sodas that were packaged in slender cans.
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The Azzurri's esteemed defense is well-known for its ability to maintain slender leads.
sonofgroucho commented on the word slender
Not a description often applied to me, I'm afraid.
October 4, 2007
seanahan commented on the word slender
Slender is the poetic way to say skinny.
October 4, 2007
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July 8, 2011