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Slender

Definition: Slender

Slender

Adjective

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Slender

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Slender

Synonyms: lissom (adj), lissome (adj), lithe (adj), lithesome (adj), slight (adj), slim (adj), supple (adj), svelte (adj), sylphlike (adj), thin (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Slender

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Slender

English words defined with "slender": slender centaury, slender lady palm. (references)
Specialty definitions using "slender": Adina, Almsbasal plate, Buffer stripscaco- mixle, Catkins, Caulobacter crescentus, centering rod, centring rod, CornstalksDRAWING-IN-MACHINE TENDER, drawn-upEosinophilsfemmer, Fuel rodLong TailMAKE WEIGHT, Malpighian Tubules, MASTER STRAIGHTEDGE, Microtubules, miner's needle, Myxococcaceae, MyxococcusNay-word, Nerve Fibers, NeutrophilsOddsPICOT BARRiches, rod restraint, rumorSea Cucumbers, SPINDLE SHANKS, spooner, stiffening plateTurkish Willow. (references)
Etymologies containing "slender": Soosoo. (references)

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Modern Usage: Slender

DomainUsage

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)

Bodiam Castle and Eric the Slender (1926)

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Commercial Usage: Slender

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Slender Thread (reference)

  • A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis (reference)

  • Garden of Slender Trust (reference)

  • Snowbird Diet: 12 Days to a Slender Future-And a Lifetime of Gourmet Dining (reference)

  • The Girls of Slender Means (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Dreaming Fists with Slender Hands (a.k.a. Kung Fu Kids) (reference)

  • Slender Thighs Hips & Stomach (reference)

  • The Slender Thread (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Slender

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Photo Album: Slender

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Slender
 

"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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Familiar Quotations: Slender

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Slender

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Slender

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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

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Slender

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7639,001

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Slender

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "slender".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
HaruphiteN/ABiblical

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Expressions: Slender

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.

Hyphenated Usage

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Slender

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

slender

70

slender body

4

slender lady

57

slender way

4

suddenly slender

49

glass lizard slender western

4

mist slender

26

babe slender

4

slender wrap

21

leg long slender

3

suddenly slender body wrap

17

body quest slender wrap

3

blonde slender

14

slender body wrap

3

life slender

12

model pic slender young

3

girl slender

11

quest slender

3

slender weigh

10

cream ice slender

3

slender soy

10

deutzia slender

3

loris slender

9

cream puff slender

3

essential slender

7

slender sluts

3

leg slender

7

seduction slender

2

slender woman

6

fitness lady slender

2

by nature slender

5

napkin sanitary slender

2

slender teen

5

columbus ga slender wrap

2

horse sea slender

5

slender wonder

2

desert slender salamander

5

slender wheatgrass

2

simply slender

5

simply slender body wrap

2
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Modern Translation: Slender

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 , (fine, minutely, thin), (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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Slender

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exilis, gracilis, petilus, subtilior, subtilis, tenuis. (various references)

Italian900-Modern

svelto. (various references)

Old French900-1400

esclendre. (various references)

French1500-Modern

svelte. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Slender

Derivations

Words beginning with "slender": slenderer, slenderest, slenderize, slenderized, slenderizes, slenderizing, slenderly, slenderness, slendernesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Slender"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "slender" (pronounced sle"nder)
5-l e" n d erblender, lender, splendor.
4-e" n d erEnder, engender, bender, contender, defender, Fender, gender, offender, pretender, render, sender, Spender, surrender, suspender, tender, vendor.
3-n d erAlexander, 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.

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Anagrams: Slender

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.

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INDEX

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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