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adj
Slender; thin.
Slender in an attractive way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: lithe, svelte, willowy, gaunt, gracile, lank, lean, leansome, lithesome, lissome, rangy, sleek, slender, slight, slim, slinky, swack, sylphlike
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adj
Slender; thin.
Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: slimming
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adj
Slender; thin.
Long and narrow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: fine, stalky, sticklike, thin, virgate
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adj
Slender; thin.
Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: agile
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adj
Very small, tiny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: infinitesimal, marginal
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adj
Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Qualifier: rustic
Synonyms: lousy, shoddy, delicate, frail, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched, breakable, tender, fragile, frailsome, frangible, tenuous
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adj
Sly, crafty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, obsolete
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Synonyms: cunning, frood, astute, artful, cautelous, crafty, devious, diabolical, foxlike, foxy, guileful, shrewd, slim, sly, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A potato farl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, countable, regional, uncountable
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noun
AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Africa, East, uncountable
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noun
Cocaine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Acronym of short linear motif.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To make slimmer; to reduce in size.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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adjective satellite
being of delicate or slender build- Frank Norris
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte
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adjective satellite
small in quantity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: slender
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verb
take off weight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slenderize, thin, slim down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change state, turn
Narrower terms: sweat off
History
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning. The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly." Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
* As an English surname, from the noun slime, probably topographic. * As a Native American surname (Navajo), from the English adjective slim, a calque of personal names containing the suffix -tsʼósí (“skinny, slim”), such as Hastiin-tsʼósí (“slim man”), see also Tsosie.
Across languages
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