Slender vs. Lanky

Slenderadjective

Thin; slim.

‘A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.’;

Lankyadjective

(informal) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.

Slenderadjective

(figurative) meagre; deficient

‘Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.’;

Lankyadjective

Somewhat lank; tall, thin, bony and ungraceful.

‘The lanky Dinka, nearly seven feet in height.’;

Slenderadjective

(Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

Lankyadjective

tall and thin and having long slender limbs;

‘a gangling teenager’; ‘a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man’;

Slenderadjective

Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.

‘She, as a veil down to the slender waist,Her unadorned golden tresses wore.’;

Lankyadjective

ungracefully tall and thin

Slenderadjective

Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.

‘Mighty hearts are held in slender chains.’; ‘They have inferred much from slender premises.’; ‘The slender utterance of the consonants.’;

Slenderadjective

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.’;

Slenderadjective

Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.

‘Frequent begging makes slender alms.’;

Slenderadjective

Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

‘The good Ostorius often deignedTo grace my slender table with his presence.’;

Slenderadjective

Uttered with a thin tone; - the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Slenderadjective

being of delicate or slender build;

‘she was slender as a willow shoot is slender’; ‘a slim girl with straight blonde hair’; ‘watched her slight figure cross the street’;

Slenderadjective

very narrow;

‘a thin line across the page’;

Slenderadjective

having little width in proportion to the length or height;

‘a slender pole’;

Slenderadjective

small in quantity;

‘slender wages’; ‘a slim chance of winning’; ‘a small surplus’;

Slenderadjective

gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease

Slenderadjective

(of a person or part of the body) gracefully thin

‘her slender neck’;

Slenderadjective

(especially of a rod or stem) of small girth or breadth

‘slender iron railings’;

Slenderadjective

(of something abstract) barely sufficient in amount or basis

‘people of slender means’; ‘a slender majority of four’;