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Definition: Slender |
SlenderAdjective1. Being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street". 2. Very narrow; "a thin line across the page". 3. Having little width in proportion to the length or height; "a slender pole". 4. Small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus". 5. Gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slender" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Slender \Slen"der\, adjective. [Comparative Slenderer; superlative Slenderest.]. (references) |
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Literature | Slender A country lout, a booby in love with Anne Page, but of too faint a heart to win so fair a lady. (Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Physics | Said of a wing with a very large slenderness ratio. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SlenderSynonyms: lissom (adj), lissome (adj), lithe (adj), lithesome (adj), slight (adj), slim (adj), supple (adj), svelte (adj), sylphlike (adj), thin (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Narrowness Thinness | Adjective: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like; (filament); finespun, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded; (expand; ); slender as a thread. |
Poverty | Bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity. |
Smallness | Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle. |
Unimportance | Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water. |
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Crosswords: Slender |
| English words defined with "slender": slender centaury, slender lady palm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slender": Adina, Alms ♦ basal plate, Buffer strips ♦ caco- mixle, Catkins, Caulobacter crescentus, centering rod, centring rod, Cornstalks ♦ DRAWING-IN-MACHINE TENDER, drawn-up ♦ Eosinophils ♦ femmer, Fuel rod ♦ Long Tail ♦ MAKE WEIGHT, Malpighian Tubules, MASTER STRAIGHTEDGE, Microtubules, miner's needle, Myxococcaceae, Myxococcus ♦ Nay-word, Nerve Fibers, Neutrophils ♦ Odds ♦ PICOT BAR ♦ Riches, rod restraint, rumor ♦ Sea Cucumbers, SPINDLE SHANKS, spooner, stiffening plate ♦ Turkish Willow. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "slender": Soosoo. (references) |
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Screenplays | Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman (Rembrandt; writing credit: Carl Zuckmayer; June Head) It's interesting that you would say a big ass, 'cause Jean is quite slender. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it (Unbreakable; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
Lyrics | The boy with pop is slender (I'll Tumble 4 Ya; performing artist: Culture Club) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Slender Thread (1965) | |
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![]() | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Mud Snail, Batillaria attramentaria, is abundant on soft mud or high intertidal zones of quiet bays and estuaries from Boundary Bay, British Columbia, to Elkhorn Slough, California . The shell is long, slender, and about 35mm long. It was introduced from Japan to the U.S. and is common where Japanese oysters were planted. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader and RC&D Coordinator David Manzanares inspect first years growth of emergency reseeding after the Los Alamos fires. Some of the species planted for erosion control were prairie junegrass, slender wheatgrass, mounta. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
![]() | First years growth of emergency reseeding after the Los Alamos fires. Some of the species planted for erosion control and habitat improvement were prairie junegrass, slender wheatgrass, mountain brome, three awn, gambel's oak, and mountain mahogany. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. | Limnanthes gracilis var. gracilis, also commonly known as Slender Meadow Foam. Credit: John Seevers. | |
Medium shot of slender meadow foam (Limnanthes gracilis var. gracilis). Credit: Joan Seevers. | Closeup shot of slender phlox (Microsteris gracilis). Credit: John Craig. | ||
![]() | When her hands touched the keys a new tension came into the slender figure. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | If dreams came true. Oh, take that one, Elmer! I love you in those slender college-boy effects!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus car" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "(Daucus carota) Wild carrot is edible when young but the root (especially the center) soon gets tough. It is yellowish in color, spindle-shaped, slender, firm and woody; a pernicious weed in some areas. ." | "Arab Tower of Bujaco" by Luis Alves Commentary: "The Bujaco Tower is the most beautiful one of the five that are left in the city when it was under Muslim control throughout the 12th century. Also known as the New Tower or Watch Tower, its most popular name derives from the Calif Abu-ya-gub. This slend" |
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George Washington | A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. |
Martin Tupper | Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. |
Ovid | All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. |
Thomas Jefferson | Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fantine had the long, white, slender fingers of the vestals that stir the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden rod. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A little gold football hung on a slender chain across his vest |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I determined to go into business at once, and not wait to acquire the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character. Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. Joel Buxter |
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| "Slender" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slender" is used about 763 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 763 | 9,001 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "slender". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Haruphite | N/A | Biblical | Slender |
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Expressions using "slender": a man of slender means ♦ slender as a thread ♦ slender body ♦ slender centaury ♦ slender girl ♦ slender hope ♦ slender income ♦ slender knapweed ♦ slender lady palm ♦ slender loris ♦ slender rush ♦ slender salamander ♦ slender spike rush ♦ slender transition ♦ slender waist ♦ slender waisted ♦ slender wheatgrass ♦ slender wild oat. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "slender": slender-billed, Slender-bodies, slender-faced, slender-heeled, slender-legged, slender-limbed, slender-necked, slender-stemmed, slender-tailed meerkat, slender-thighed, slender-tubed, slender-waisted. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "slender"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | dun (airy, gaunt, lean, thin), skraal (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slim, thin), maer (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin). (various references) | |
Albanian | i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), hollë (gaunt, lean, perceptively, thin). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرهف (delicate, fine, flimsy, sensitive), هيفاء (svelte), هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slight, slim, small, svelte, thin), ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ضامر (atrophied, lank, lean, raw boned, scraggy, skinny), ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, little, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched), أهيف (rakish). (various references) | |
Basque | bukaera (fine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | строен (slim, svelte, upstanding, well knit, well-built, well-made, well-proportioned, well-set, willowy), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), крехък (brittle, delicate, egg shell, flimsy, fragile, frail, lean, slight, tender), необоснован (baseless, causeless, idle, ill founded, invalid, precarious, unbacked, unfounded, unsound), нежен (affectionate, dainty, delicate, dovelike, downy, fatherly, fond, fragile, frail, loving, maidenly, melodious, melting, soft, sweet, tender, womanly), недостатъчен (deficient, exiguous, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, insufficient, scanty, scarce, short, skimpy, slim, wanting), деликатен (considerate, delicate, fastidious, fine, fragile, nice, pernickety, prickly, slippery, slippy, soft, tender, thoughtful, ticklish). (various references) | |
Catalan | prim (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Chinese | 苗条, 細長 , 細 (fine, minutely, thin), 孅 (cunning). (various references) | |
Czech | malý (faint, little, minor, pokey, remote, scant, short, small, stingy, tight, tiny, young), hubený (jejune, lank, lean, slim, spare, stingy, thin), útlý (petite, subtle), štíhlý (lean, slight, slim, svelte). (various references) | |
Danish | slank (slim). (various references) | |
Dutch | sprietig (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin), slank (slim), schraal (barren, coarse, gaunt, in short supply, infertile, lean, meager, rough, scanty, scarce, skimpy, skinny, thin), mager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin), luchtig (airily, airy, airy-fairy, flighty, fresh, gaunt, impulsive, lean, loose, recent, sandy, thin), dun (airy, fluid, gaunt, lean, liquid, thin). (various references) | |
Esperanto | svelta (slim), maldika (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Faeroese | snotiligur (chic, slim), mjáur (graceful, slim), klænur (gaunt, graceful, lean, slim, thin). (various references) | |
Farsi | کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slight, Small), قلیل (Scant, Scarce, Scrimp, Skimpy, Slight), قلمی , سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), ضعیف (Anemic, Atonic, Infirm, Languid, Lean, Light, Puny, Pusillanimous, Rickety, Sappy, Shaky, Slack, Weak), ظریف (Capillary, Delicate, Sheer), بلندوباریک , باریک (Capillary, Linear, Narrow, Slat, Slice, Strait, Tender, Tenuous, Thin). (various references) | |
Finnish | solakka (slim), siro (delicate, graceful), hoikka (lank, slim, thin), hintelä (lanky, slim), hentorakenteinen, hento (delicate, tiny, weak). (various references) | |
French | mince (slight, slim). (various references) | |
Frisian | tin (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
German | schlank (neat, scrawny, slenderly, slim, slimly, svelte). (various references) | |
Greek | καλλίγραμοσ, ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slim, spare, thin), λιγοστόσ (meager, meagre, very little), λυγερός, λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, refined, sleazy, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish), λεπτός (delicate, flimsy, subtle, tenuous, thin), λεπτό (centime, minute, penny), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy, weak). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | hollë (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תמיר (erect, svelte, tall, upright, upstanding, willowy), עדין (as yet, dainty, delicate, elegant, fine, gentle, gracious, mild, noble, not yet, soft, still, subtle, tender, yet), זעום (inconsiderable, insignificant, meagre, scant, scanty, slight, spare), דק (delicate, fine, flimsy, lean, slight, slim, spindly, thin), רזה (lean, macilent, meagre, peak, peaky, skinny, slim, spare, thin). (various references) | |
Hungarian | karcsú (attenuate, fine, jimp, lank, lithe, rangy, reedy, slight, slim, svelte), nyúlánk (fine, rangy, willowy). (various references) | |
Icelandic | mjór (gaunt, lean, slim, thin), þunnur (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ramping (slim), lanjai (slim), langsing (slight, slim), ceking (economical, frugal, wasted), ampai (slim). (various references) | |
Irish | slim (sleek), caol (narrow). (various references) | |
Italian | sottile (delicate, fine, gaunt, keen, lean, sharp, shrewd, slight, slim, small, subtile, subtle, thin), snello (agile, easy, flowing, scrawny, slim, svelte), esile (delicate, faint, slight, slim, tenderly, thin, weak). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 細い (fine, thin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すんなり (pass with no objection, slim), きゃしゃ (delicate, gorgeous, luxury, pomp), ほそい (fine, thin), ほそみ (narrow, thin), かしゃ (borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to convey a certain term, delicate, freight car, gorgeous, luxury, pomp, van), スレンダー , よわよわしい (feminine, frail). (various references) | |
Korean | 가냘픈. (various references) | |
Lombard | svelt (slim). (various references) | |
Malay | tipis (gaunt, lean, thin), kurus (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Manx | thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), shang (emaciated, gaunt, gracile, lank, lanky, lean, skinny, slight, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lanky, lean, narrow, slight, slim, small, spare, tapered, thin, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy), goan (address, address words, expression, meagre, rare, scant, scarce, short, spare, sparse, thin, thin of hair, tight, tight of money, utterance, word, word speech), feiosagh (flimsy, fragile, frail, lithe, thin, thin in build, weak, weakling, weed, weed of person, weedy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tynn (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Occitan | fin (fine, thin). (various references) | |
Papiamen | flaku (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slim, thin), flako (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slim, thin), delegá (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slim, thin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enderslay.(various references) | |
Polish | zgrabny (slim). (various references) | |
Portuguese | delgado (elongate, fine, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sleazy, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, wispy), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, genteel, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, nobby, out-and-out, posh, refined, select, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well-bred, well-made, wispy), esguio (lank, lanky, lean, rangy, slim, thin), esbelto (elegant, graceful, jimp, lank, slim, thin, willowy), delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, fine, flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingerly, kid-glove, kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out-and-out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made). (various references) | |
Romanian | suplu (elastic, flexible, flexile, graceful, light, lissom, lithe, slim, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding), subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, miserable, modest, penurious, poky, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, sorry, sparing), zvelt (rakish, slim, stalky, supple, tall), tras prin inel, neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slight, small, trifling, trivial), neîndestulãtor (inadequate, insufficient, reduced, scant, scarce, small, spare), modic (moderate, slight), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), fragil (breakable, brittle, crisp, fine-spun, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, handle with care, Sandy, shivery, with care), firav (delicate, feeble, frail, infirm, puny, weak), fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, sharp, shrewd, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, purblind, slim, thin, tight). (various references) | |
Russian | стройный (clean-limbed, gent, harmonic, jimp, shapely, svelte, willowy), скудный (bare, barren, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hungry, jimp, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, spare, sparing, thin, tight), тонкий;стройный, тонкий (delicate, fine, finespun, gauzy, keen, papery, sleazy, slim, slimline, subtle, thin, twiggy, wispy), грациозный (graceful, lightsome). (various references) | |
Scottish | seang (lean, slender-waisted), cneisne, caol (lean, narrow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vitak (jimp, lissom, lissome, slim, slinky, svelte, willowy), tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scone, scrannel, sleazy, slight, tenuous, thin, weak, wispy). (various references) | |
Spanish | fino (choice, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fine, gaunt, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, polished, refined, semiprecious, sharp, sheer, shrewd, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle, thin), esbelto (chic, jimp, neat, scrawny, slim, svelte). (various references) | |
Sranan | fini (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Swahili | -embamba (narrow, slim), embamba (narrow, slim). (various references) | |
Swedish | tunn (fine, flimsy, gaunt, lean, light, rare, sheer, sleazy, tenuous, thin, wispy), smal (close, cramped, gaunt, lean, narrow, slim, tenuous, thin), smärt (jimp, slim, willowy), smäcker (slim), späd (delicate, tender, young), slank (svelte, willowy), gänglig (lanky, slim). (various references) | |
Tagalog | payát (gaunt, lean, thin). (various references) | |
Thai | เรียวยาว, ผอมบาง, มีน้อย. (various references) | |
Turkish | sınırlı (contracted, determinate, finite, limited, ltd, measurable, narrow, parochial, restricted, scant, scanty, scarce, stinted, Strait), yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, inconclusive, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), ufak tefek (bantam, footling, petty, pint-size, pint-sized, small), narin (delicate, fine, fragile, frail, slight, slim, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, willowy), ince belli (slender waisted, slim, slim waisted, waspish), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, little, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slim, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references) | |
Turkmen | syratly (slim), яuka (delicate, thin). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slight, small, trivial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thon ít ỏi (slim), nghèo nàn mỏng manh yếu ớt, mảnh khảnh (delicate, slight, slim, svelte), mảnh dẻ (fragile, gracile, slim, tender, thin). (various references) | |
Welsh | tenau (lean, rarefied, sensitive, thin), main (fine, thin), eiddil (feeble), addfain (shapely). (various references) | |
Yucatec | hay (even, flat, gaunt, lean, level, smooth, thin), bek'ech (slim). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exilis, gracilis, petilus, subtilior, subtilis, tenuis. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | svelto. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | esclendre. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | svelte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slender": slenderer, slenderest, slenderize, slenderized, slenderizes, slenderizing, slenderly, slenderness, slendernesses. (additional references) | |
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"Slender" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allender, Cleyndert, olender, salnder, scendere, Selander, selenide, sendel, sendero, silender, slanded, slandor, slaunder, slend, slende, slendes, slendor, slendr, slendre, slenker, slinder, solander, splender, Szendrey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slender" (pronounced sle"nder) |
| 5 | -l e" n d er | blender, lender, splendor. |
| 4 | -e" n d er | Ender, engender, bender, contender, defender, Fender, gender, offender, pretender, render, sender, Spender, surrender, suspender, tender, vendor. |
| 3 | -n d er | Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, binder, blander, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, coriander, cylinder, extender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, mainlander, meander, minder, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, Sidewinder, slander, sounder, squander, Stander, sunder, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lenders, relends. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: denser, elders, enders, lender, lensed, relend, resend, sender. | |
-2 letters: deers, deles, denes, dense, drees, elder, ender, ernes, leers, lends, lenes, lense, needs, nerds, redes, reeds, reels, rends, seder, sered, sneer. | |
-3 letters: deer, dees, dele, dels, dene, dens, dere, dree, eels, elds, else, ends, erne, erns, leer, lees, lend, lens, need, nerd, rede, reds. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: blenders, needlers, reblends, redlines. | |
+2 letters: calenders, decliners, enfolders, engirdles, ensnarled, lavenders, oleanders, overlends, reedlings, rehandles, rekindles, rondelets, rondelles, sideliner, slandered, slanderer, slenderer, slenderly, snorkeled, underlets, underlies, undersell. | |
+3 letters: alexanders, banderoles, bandoleers, blunderers, breadlines, cullenders, dinnerless, drivelines, endorsable, enscrolled, ensorceled, fenderless, friendless, friendlies, headliners, indwellers, infielders, interlends, interludes, launderers, lederhosen, legendries, linearised, madrilenes, mislearned, newsdealer, penholders, plunderers, redolences, reenlisted, relicensed, reshingled, resignedly, ridgelines, screenland, sideliners, slanderers, slenderest, slenderize, splendider, splintered, tailenders, ultradense, underlines, undersells, unresolved, unsoldered, wilderness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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