About The Word Slender
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Slender
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What's The Definition Of Slender?
[adj] being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
[adj] gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [adj] small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [adj] having little width in proportion to the length or height; "a slender pole" [adj] very narrow; "a thin line across the page" Synonyms | Synonyms for Slender: graceful | lean | lissom | lissome | lithe | lithesome | little | narrow | slight | slim | small | supple | svelte | sylphlike | thin Related Terms | Find terms related to Slender: See Also | Slender In Webster's Dictionary \Slen"der\, a. [Compar. {Slenderer}; superl.
{Slenderest}.] [OE. slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin,
slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
slidderen, to creep; perh. akin to E. slide.]
1. Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height;
not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
``A slender, choleric man.'' --Chaucer.
She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her
unadorned golden tresses wore. --Milton.
2. Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a
slender constitution.
Mighty hearts are held in slender chains. --Pope.
They have inferred much from slender premises. --J.
H. Newman.
The slender utterance of the consonants. --J. Byrne.
3. Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of
slender intelligence.
A slender degree of patience will enable him to
enjoy both the humor and the pathos. --Sir W.
Scott.
4. Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of
support; a slender pittance.
Frequent begging makes slender alms. --Fuller.
5. Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
The good Ostorius often deigned To grace my slender
table with his presence. --Philips.
6. (Phon.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of
broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. --
{Slen"der*ly}, adv. -- {Slen"der*ness}, n.
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