Slightadjective
Small in amount, gentle, or weak; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
‘a slight (i.e. feeble) effort;’; ‘a slight (i.e. not deep) impression;’; ‘a slight (i.e. not convincing) argument;’; ‘a slight (i.e. not thorough) examination;’; ‘a slight (i.e. not severe) pain;’; ‘in the slight future (i.e. the very near future)’;
Twiglikeadjective
Resembling or characteristic of a twig; thin and brittle.
Slightadjective
Not stout or heavy; slender.
‘a slight but graceful woman’;
Twiglikeadjective
resembling a twig
Slightadjective
(regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
‘A slight stone’; ‘The sea was slight and calm’;
Slightadjective
(obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
Slightadjective
Bad, of poor quality (as goods).
‘A gullible chapman was fooled into buying really slight goods.’;
Slightadjective
(dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.
Slightverb
(transitive) To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
Slightverb
(transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
Slightverb
(transitive) To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
Slightverb
(intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
Slightverb
To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
Slightverb
(transitive) To make even or level.
Slightverb
(transitive) To throw heedlessly.
Slightnoun
The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
Slightnoun
(obsolete) Sleight.
Slightnoun
Sleight.
Slightnoun
The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
Slightverb
To overthrow; to demolish.
Slightverb
To make even or level.
Slightverb
To throw heedlessly.
‘The rogue slighted me into the river.’;
Slightverb
To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
‘The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies.’; ‘Beware . . . lest the like befall . . . If they transgress and slight that sole command.’; ‘This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace,Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.’;
Slightadjective
Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; - applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.
‘Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.’; ‘Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.’;
Slightadjective
Not stout or heavy; slender.
‘His own figure, which was formerly so slight.’;
Slightadjective
Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
Slightadverb
Slightly.
‘Think not so slight of glory.’;
Slightnoun
a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
Slightverb
pay no attention to, disrespect;
‘She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance’;
Slightadjective
having little substance or significance;
‘a flimsy excuse’; ‘slight evidence’; ‘a tenuous argument’; ‘a thin plot’;
Slightadjective
almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little;
‘there's slight chance that it will work’; ‘there's a slight chance it will work’;
Slightadjective
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’;
