[
UK
/slˈaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈsɫaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫaɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
being of delicate or slender build
a slim girl with straight blonde hair
she was slender as a willow shoot is slender
watched her slight figure cross the street -
(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
little rain fell in May
a little hope remained
there's slight chance that it will work
we still have little money
little time is left
gave it little thought
there's a slight chance it will work -
lacking substance or significance
a tenuous argument
slight evidence
a thin plot
a fragile claim to fame
NOUN
- a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
VERB
-
pay no attention to, disrespect
She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
How To Use slight In A Sentence
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- This contact of his had passed on to him a list of slightly disreputable jewelers and watchmakers in the area, on which I was rather impressed and a bit taken aback to find my appearance.
- Though the change was slight, he saw that they had both lost a little of their babyishness.
- A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
- They will be slightly more expensive but they last a lot longer.
- Yet the video footage shows a man slightly unsteady on his feet. Times, Sunday Times
- Today he is slightly less bullish about the book and his boardroom skills. Times, Sunday Times
- But the consumer magazine also noted that people rated the no-frills carriers slightly worse than two years ago.
