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| Main Entry: |
slender/slim
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin, not heavy |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, beanpole, beanstalk, fine, insubstantial, lean, lithe, narrow, reedy, skeleton, skinny, slight, spare, stalky, stick, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, threadlike, trim, twiggy, willowy |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, heavy, overweight, plump, thick |
| Main Entry: | slender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | abstemious, acicular, aciculate, delicate, faint, feeble, fragile, frail, frugal, gracile, inconsiderable, lank, lanky, lean, lissome, lithe, lithesome, little, meager, minute, narrow, outside, plain, remote, scant, skinny, slight, slim, small, spare, spindling, svelte, tenuous, trim, trivial, weak, willowy, wiry, wispy |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickly |
| Synonyms: | ailing, debilitated, decrepit, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, infirm, shatterable, shattery, slender, slight, susceptible, tender, unhealthy, weak |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, strong |
Example Sentences
- Personal attacks sharpen the choice between the two parties, when many differences are slender.
- It would be more reddish-brown than red, though, and a bit larger but more slender than a cardinal.
- It had large eyes, slender flexible fingers, and a light body.
| Main Entry: | exiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scanty |
| Synonyms: | bare, confined, diminutive, inadequate, limited, little, meager, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, poor, restricted, skimpy, slender, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, tiny |
| Antonyms: | plenty |
| Main Entry: | few |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardly any |
| Synonyms: | exiguous, few and far between, imperceptible, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, not many, not too many, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scarcely any, scattered, scattering, seldom, semioccasional, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, straggling, thin, trifling, uncommon, unfrequent, widely spaced |
| Antonyms: | many, much |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, delicate; sheer |
| Synonyms: | diaphanous, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
| Antonyms: | coarse, rough, thick |
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | graceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, charming, lovely |
| Synonyms: | adroit, aesthetic, artistic, balletic, beautiful, becoming, comely, controlled, curvaceous, dainty, decorative, delicate, dexterous, easy, elastic, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, flowing, handsome, harmonious, limber, lissome, lithe, natural, neat, nimble, pleasing, pliant, poised, practiced, pretty, refined, rhythmic, seemly, shapely, skilled, slender, smooth, springy, statuesque, supple, symmetrical, tasteful, trim, willowy |
| Notes: | graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit |
| Antonyms: | awkward, careless, graceless, inept, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy |
| Main Entry: | insubstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, imaginary |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, chimerical, decrepit, ephemeral, false, fanciful, feeble, flimsy, fly-by-night, fragile, frail, idle, illusory, immaterial, imponderable, incorporeal, infirm, intangible, metaphysical, petty, poor, puny, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, too little too late, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial |
| Antonyms: | real, strong, substantial |
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