Slight

Definition: Slight

Slight

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot".

3. 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".

Noun

1. A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval).

Verb

1. Pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Slight \Slight\, adjective. [Comparative Slighter; superlative Slightest.]. (references)

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Slight

Contempt

Verb: despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by; (neglect).

Noun: contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect.

Deception

Delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation, prestidigitation; magic; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery, chicanery; supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion; treachery; practical joke.

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Disrespect

Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat.

Irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae, superciliousness; (contempt).

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Neglect

Scamp; trifle, fribble; do by halves; cut; slight; (despise); play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer; take a cursory view of.

Rarity

Adjective: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light; cavernous, spongy. (hollow).

Shallowness

Adjective: shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly.

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.

Underestimation

Verb: underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate; disparage; (detract); not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule; slight; (despise); neglect; slur over.

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.

Crosswords: Slight

Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

I may go into a slight trance, Mr. Condomine (Blithe Spirit; writing credit: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame. Based on the play by Noel Coward.)

There's a slight difference (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

I enjoy gay people, but I just have a slight problem with my pregnant sister being in love with one of them (The Object of My Affection; writing credit: Wendy Wasserstein. Based on the novel by Stephen McCauley.)

I think we have a slight togetherness shortfall here (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

But certainly slight (Devil Inside; performing artist: INXS)

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? (references; author: unknown)

A Slight Ache (1967)

Her Slight Mistake (1915)

A Slight Mistake (1911)

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Books

• A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook (reference)

• A Slight Change of Plans (reference)

• A Slight Difference of Opinion (reference)

• A Slight Hangover (reference)

• A Slight Touch of Terror (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Slight Case of Murder (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (reference)

• Slight Touch of Grace (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Two individual shots of Building 1. One shot is medium shot of front of Building 1 taken from slight angle to include flag pole on left. Another shot shows front of Building 1 taken from a low angle with flag pole centered. Shot is wide. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Gross autopsy specimen of liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Cut surface shows slight pallor due to fat accumulation in liver cells. Credit: CDC.

With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC.

Yahoo!!!! - hang on for a "slight bank" Taken from cockpit of Coast Guard PBY. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Hooded Nudibranch, Melibe leonina, is also called the Lion Nudibranch. This mollusk is almost transparent with a slight yellowish-green cast. Unlike other nudibranchs, Melibe have no radula and M. Leonina has no jaws. It uses its oral hood, lined with 2 rows of tentacles to capture prey. Found in offshore kelpbeds and eelgrass meadows. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

In background retinopathy, a slight deterioration in the small blood vessels of the retina, portions of the vessels may swell and leak fluid into the surrounding retinal tissue. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A slight mistake. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A freeman shall not be amerced for a slight offense, except in accordance with the degree of the offense; and for a grave offense he shall be amerced in accordance with the gravity of the offense, yet saving always his "contentment"; and a merchant in the same way, saving his "merchandise"; and a villein shall be amerced in the same way, saving his "wainage" if they have fallen into our mercy: and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed except by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood. (reference)

Thirdly, Supposing a government wherein the person of the chief magistrate is not thus sacred; yet this doctrine of the lawfulness of resisting all unlawful exercises of his power, will not upon every slight occasion indanger him, or embroil the government: for where the injured party may be relieved, and his damages repaired by appeal to the law, there can be no pretence for force, which is only to be used where a man is intercepted from appealing to the law: for nothing is to be accounted hostile force, but where it leaves not the remedy of such an appeal; and it is such force alone, that puts him that uses it into a state of war, and makes it lawful to resist him. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He ought to have opposed the first attempt on their side to make him slight his father

His Majesty looked round him severely, and gave a slight growl, which produced instant silence

A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats

Slight tremor there

A slight noise was made at the door

He struck the flags again and tittered while his head trembled with a slight nervous movement

He walked quietly away, and only a slight crunching of clods could be heard from his passage

Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Disability is generally slight. (references)

Some women, however, have slight discomfort or worse. (references)

As they enter puberty, many boys will undergo slight breast enlargement. (references)

Business

There is a slight decrease, especially among children. (references)

This represented a slight increase with respect to the previous quarter. (references)

In addition, sometimes there are slight discrepancies between both systems. (references)

Children

Burkina Faso

The estimated adult literacy rate is 23 percent, a slight increase from the rate of 22 percent in 1996. The rate of male literacy is approximately 30 percent and female literacy is 9 percent. (references)

Mauritania

The Government has made universal primary education a priority; however, there only was a slight increase in attendance from the previous year, in which the school enrollment rate was 86 percent. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Christian leaders detected a slight decrease in the incidents of violence against their community and also a change in the type of incidents. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Banana exports continue depressed while other fruits and vegetables presented slight decreases. (references)

Korea

Manufacturing led Korea's GDP growth in 2000, jumping 15.4%, a slight drop from 1999's 21.0% increase. (references)

Sri Lanka

These measures have contributed to faster decision making and a slight improvement in the procurement climate. (references)

Minorities

Germany

The report lists 56 such cases in 2000. In October 2000, Molotov cocktails thrown at the synagogue in Düsseldorf caused slight damage to the building. (references)

Political Economy

SPAIN

Recently released monthly unemployment figures show slight increases in unemployment starting in July 2001. (references)

Albania

The official unemployment rate was 16 percent, a slight decrease from the 17.5 percent of the previous year. (references)

Political Rights

Macedonia

In the Parliament, only eight of 120 members are female, a slight increase from four women in the previous Parliament. (references)

Trade

Mexico

Documents against acceptance is a slight variation of this method. (references)

Argentina

The same requirement, with slight differences, applies to health supplements. (references)

Travel

Japan

A slight bow in acknowledgment of a Japanese bow is appreciated. (references)

Bolivia

This medication inhibits the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, has a slight diuretic effect, and stimulates respiration. (references)

Sweden

One slight difference may be that the senior business people in Sweden may be a bit more "hands on" then their American counterparts. (references)

Women

Portugal

Women make up a slight majority of university graduates. (references)

India

Other states have shown a slight narrowing of the girl/boy ratio. (references)

Guinea

A growing number of men and women oppose FGM. Urban, educated families are opting increasingly to perform only a slight symbolic incision on a girl's genitals rather than the complete procedure. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slight": a slight variance of opinion ♦ give a slight cough ♦ give a slight nuance to ♦ have a slight cough ♦ man of slight make ♦ slight breeze ♦ slight care ♦ slight change ♦ slight decline ♦ slight defect ♦ slight drop ♦ slight examination ♦ slight frosts ♦ slight knowledge ♦ slight misunderstanding ♦ slight repair ♦ slight someone ♦ To slight off ♦ To slight over ♦ very slight. Additional references.

Ending with "slight": not-so-slight.

Albanian

shpërfill (contemn, disregard, neglect, pass by), mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, slur, snub), injoroj (blink, dissemble, ignore, pigeonhole), injorim (putdown), imët (tiny), i vockël (fine, minuscule, minute, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, pinpoint, potty, puny, teeny, tiny, trifling, wee, wispy), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i largët (distant, far, far off, faraway, long run, odd, off, out of the way, outer, remote, removed, vague, way out), 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, slender, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تجاهل (cut, disregard, eliminate, ignore, ignoring, inattention, neglect, overlooking, override, passing over, slighting, wink at), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, throwaway), ‏إزدرى (despise, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disfavour, look down on, pooh pooh, scorn, snub), ‏إستخف (belittle, despise, disesteem, disparage, disregard, neglect, pass over, pooh pooh, talk down, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), ‏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, slender, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏طفيف (incommodious, inconsiderable, skin deep, small, tenuous, trivial), ‏زل (err, nod), ‏أهان (abase oneself, affront, debase, degrade, dishonor, dishonour, flout, give offence, give offense, injure, insult, malign, offend, oppress, outrage, revile, slap, take offence, take offense), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, lax, rocky, scruffy, sleazy, slim, thin, tumbledown), ‏غيض (little), ‏واه (flimsy, weak), ‏وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scaly, scruffy, scurvy, slavish, snide, vile), ‏قليل (few, little, scarce, small), ‏نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slender, slim, small, svelte, thin), ‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏متواضع (humble, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, modest, negligible, small, trivial, unassuming, unpretentious), ‏سطحي (cursory, exterior, external, facile, frothy, perfunctory, peripheral, primary, shallow-minded, sketchy, skin deep, superficial, surface, unexperienced, unintelligent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

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, slender, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), чуплив (brash, breakable, brittle, egg shell, fragile, frail, frangible, shivery, short, tender, weak), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), крехък (brittle, delicate, egg shell, flimsy, fragile, frail, lean, slender, tender), върша как да е, обиждам (abuse, affront, aggrieve, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, offend, outrage, spite, vituperate, wrong), обида (affront, cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), незачитане (defiance, disregard, impiety, inconsideration, oblivion), не зачитам (defy), малък (bijou, light, little, measurable, paltry, piccolo, pocket, remote, slim, small, tiddly, toy, venial, young), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, wave aside, wave away), пренебрежение (depreciation, dispraise, disregard, flout). (various references)

Chinese 

轻微 (lightly, lightness), 輕微 , 謾 (deceive, disrespect, neglect), 薄 (belittle, despise, frivolous, meagre, mean, peppermint, small, thin, to approach, to go near, ungenerous, unkind). (various references)

Czech

nezávažný (insignificant, not serious), nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scant, scanty, slim, small, thin, trifling), štíhlý (lean, slender, slim, svelte). (various references)

Danish

let (bright, easy, facile, light). (various references)

Dutch

propperig (tiny), minuskuul (tiny), minuscuul (dwarf, midget, tiny), licht (bright, clear, easy, facile, faint, insubstantial, light, lightly, shallow, superficial, weak, weakly), klein (diminutive, little, short, small, tiny). (various references)

Faeroese

pinkulítil (tiny). (various references)

Farsi 

قلیل (Scant, Scarce, Scrimp, Skimpy, Slender), بی اعتناءی (Defiance, Inattention, Scorn), شخص بی اهمیت , اندک (Lean, Light, Little, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Pinch, Scant, Scantling, Scarce, Scrimp, Scruple, Skimpy, Whit), صیقلی (Glossy, Levigate, Reflective, Shiny, Sleek, Smooth), تراز (Balance, Even, Level), ترازکردن (Level), باریک اندام (Slim), حقیر (Little, Runty), فروتن (Courteous, Daft, Humble, Low, Lowly, Meek, Modest, Submissive, Unassuming, Unpretentious, Venal), لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scraggy, Scrannel, Skinny, Slim, Slink, Spare, Thin, Toom, Wizen), کودن (Backward, Birdbrain, Cockeyed, Crass, Doddering, Dull, Dunce, Lug, Sappy, Slow, Unapt, Unintelligent), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Small), ناچیزشمردن (Underrate), ناچیزشماری (Depreciation, Underestimation), نحیف (Frail, Gaunt, Haggard, Lean, Meager, Scant, Scrimp, Skimp, Skimpy, Spare), مقدارناچیز (Trace), تحقیر (Contempt, Diminution, Disdain, Humility, Letdown, Scorn). (various references)

Finnish

ylenkatsoa (despise, disdain, hold cheap, look down upon), vähäpätöinen (insignificant, of little importance, trifling, trivial, unimportant), vähäinen (minor, small), pikkuinen (tiny), lievä (lenient, light, mild), heikko (delicate, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, poor, weak). (various references)

French

servile (slavish), superficiel (slick), maigre (slender, slim, slink), blesser (slash), exigu, frêle, ignorer, injurier, insignifiant (slim), affront (slur), mépriser, mince (slender, slim), miteux (sleazy, slim), modique, négliger, offenser, léger. (various references)

German

geringfügig (fractional, insignificant, insubstantial, marginal, marginally, minor, negligible, pettily, petty, slightly, trivial). (various references)

Greek 

προσβάλλω (affect, afflict, affront, assail, assault, attack, blackguard, encroach, insult, mob, offend, outrage, shock). (various references)

Hawaiian

imët (tiny). (various references)

Hebrew 

למעט (decrease, exclude, excluding, exclusive of, lessen, reduce, with the exeption of, without), לפגוע (affect, blight, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, injure, offend, prejudice, strike, wound), לזלזל (decry, degrade, despise, disparage, disregard, look down on, talk down, underrate), להמעיט (decrease, diminish, lessen), להקל (ease, extenuate, facilitate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, relieve, remit), להעליב (abash, affront, give offense, insult, miff, offend), חלש (faint, feeble, flaccid, frail, run down, weak), זעום (inconsiderable, insignificant, meagre, scant, scanty, slender, spare), דק (delicate, fine, flimsy, lean, slender, slim, spindly, thin). (various references)

Hungarian

vékony (attenuate, fine, flimsy, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, tenuous, thin, thinner, wispy), mellőzés, megbántás, megalázás (abasement, abjection, humiliation, indignity, mortification), kevés (a little, bare, be short of by, exiguous, few, little, little if any, little or no, scant, scarce, slim, tight), könnyű (accommodating, as easy as shelling peas, cushy, effortless, facile, filmy, flimsy, floaty, glib, light, lightweight, mild, pad, popover, potty), csekély (baseness, meager, meagre, nominal, paltry, petty, scant, slim, trifling). (various references)

Indonesian

langsing (slender, slim), capak (ignore, take lightly). (various references)

Italian

sottile (delicate, fine, gaunt, keen, lean, sharp, shrewd, slender, slim, small, subtile, subtle, thin), snobbare (snob, snub), sdegnare (anger, despise, disdain, get angry, scorn, spurn), scossa leggera, scarso (failing, jejune, low, meager, meagre, penurious, poor, scant, scantily, scanty, scarce, skimpily, skimpy, slender, slim, small, sparse, thin, tight, weak), malessere (ailment, faintness, hangover, illness, indisposition, malaise, pip, uneasiness), delicato (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, maidenly, refined, sensitive, soft, sore, subtile, subtle, tender, thin, ticklish, touchy, tricky), esile (delicate, faint, slender, slim, tenderly, thin, weak), gracile (frail, pasteboard, puny, skinny, weak), ignorare (be unaware of, disregard, ignore, ignore each other, not to know, pass by, pass over, shrug off), insignificante (inexpressive, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, potty, trifling, trivial), labkle (flimsily, weak), leggero (agile, faint, fickle, flippant, light, mild, nimble, shallow, soft, thin, thoughtless, weak), lieve (faint, gentle, light, soft, tender), affronto (affront, cut, indignity, insult, offence, offense, scathe, snub), magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scraggy, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slim, thin, thinly), trascuratezza (carelessness, inaccuracy, neglect, negligence, oversight), minuto (delicate, detailed, fine, frail, minute, petty, small, tiny), oltraggiare (insult, offend), piccolo (brief, child, cub, diminutive, little, little one, low, mean, petty, short, skimpy, small, tiny, trifling, young), tenue (faint, feeble, slender, soft, subtile, subtle, tenuous), lontano (a long way, absent, afar, aloof, apart, away, back, distant, distantly, faint, far, far afield, far off, faraway, in the distance, off, remote, way, wide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

侮辱 (contempt, insult), 侮蔑 (contempt, disdain, scorn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びびたる (insignificant, small), びび (insignificant), べっし (another messenger, contempt, derision, enclosure, special messenger), さしょう (false statement, few, little, misrepresentation, trifling, visa), ささい (trivial), うすめ (half-open eyes, on the weak side), ぶべつ (contempt, disdain, scorn), ぶじょく (contempt, insult), りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, dormitory, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume), けいしょう (accession, alarm bell, court nobles and state ministers, figure, fire bell, image, inheritance, minor illness, minor injury, nimble, picturesque scenery, scenic beauty, shape, strong and nimble, succession, title of honour, trifling), けいび (defense, guard, insignificant, little, policing, security), けいし (brother and sister, capital, despise, execution, heir, heiress, ignore, metropolis, metropolitan police, neglect, old Kyoto, police superintendent, ruledpaper, stepchild, successor). (various references)

Korean 

경미한. (various references)

Manx

shang (emaciated, gaunt, gracile, lank, lanky, lean, skinny, slender, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy), meearrym (disrespect, impertinence, impiety), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lanky, lean, narrow, slender, slim, small, spare, tapered, thin, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy), feoisagh, eddrym (airy, airy material, benign, bird-witted, empty, empty as head, feint, flighty, light, lightweight, shallow, weak, weak as blow), cur comys er, beg (dwarf, few, model, narrow, poky, quiet, short, small). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightslay.(various references)

Portuguese

trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosy, puerile, quotidian, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), ligeira, leve (buoyant, fleet-footed, flowing, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, light-legged, remote, sleazy, slim, tenuous, tripping, weightless), franzinho, fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), fútil (conceited, coxcombical, feckless, frivolity, frivolous, frothy, futile, nugatory, peddling, piddling, silliness, trifling, vain), desrespeito (disrespect, irreverence), desfeita, descortesia (discourtesy, incivility, roughness, rudeness), desconsideração (discredit), 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, slender, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made), delgado (elongate, fine, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sleazy, slender, slim, tenuous, thin, wispy), de aspecto débil. (various references)

Romanian

superficial (cursory, external, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, trivial, yeasty), subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), nu fi politicos cu, desconsidera (despise, disobey, disregard, neglect), dispreţui (brave, contemn, despise, disdain, dispraise, hold cheap, hold smb. in contempt, look down on, pooh pooh, scorn, set at naught, spurn, trample, turn up one's nose at, undervalue), lipsit de importanţã (irrelevant, unimportant), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), modic (moderate, slender), neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slender, small, trifling, trivial), bagateliza, neputincios (helpless, impotent, impuissant, incapable, infirm, limp, nerveless, palsied, shiftless, silly), zeflemisi (banter, chaff, deride, rail, ridicule, score, scorn, taunt), plãpând (delicate, dicky, dull, feeble, frail, infirm, puny, tender, weak), uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, vague, washy), neglija (neglect, omit, pass by, pass over). (various references)

Russian 

слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), третировать, незначительный (exiguous, imperceptible, importless, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, little, minor, minute, negligible, nonsignificant, of no account, of small account, outside, paltry, poky, puny, pygmy, remote, small time, small-time, tenuous, trivial), легкий;незначительный, игнорирование. (various references)

Scottish

teamhall (slight swoon or stun), pràmh (a slumber, dejection, slight sleep, slumber), feathachan (slight breeze), ùpag (a slight push). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vižljast, tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scone, scrannel, sleazy, slender, tenuous, thin, weak, wispy), omalovažavati (disdain, disrespect, underestimate, vilify), nipodaštavanje (scorn, slur), dati nekome korpu. (various references)

Spanish

leve (light, mild, remote), desaire (rebuff, slap in the face, snub). (various references)

Swedish

spenslig, lindrig (light, mild, minor), lätt (easily, easy, facile, floaty, fragile, gentle, gently, hands over fist, in a hurry, light, lightly, mild, readily, shallow, simple, slightly, tripping). (various references)

Thai

เอวบางร่างน้อย, เล็กน้อยมาก, มองข้าม (drop). (various references)

Turkish

sudan (flimsy, sorry, Sudan, sudanese, thin, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, watery), saygısızlık etmek (disesteem, disregard, disrespect), saygısızlık (defiance, discourtesy, disrespect, flippancy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, inconsiderateness, indignity, insolence, irreverence, liberty, sauciness), hiçe sayma (considering as no importance, disregarding, paying no attention, setdown), önemsememek (be oblivious to, close one's eyes to, coquet, discount, disregard, have a low opinion of, ignore, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, not to care twopence for, pay no attention, piss on smth., play down, play it low down, set at naught, set at nought, slur over, toy, treat smb. like dirt, trifle, trifle with), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty), öylesine, üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, glib, loose, perfunctory, scratchy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, superficial, trifling), azıcık (a little, bare, dollop, few, fractional, lick, little, only just, slim, spot of, sprinkle of, sprinkling of, thimbleful), belli belirsiz (dreaming, dreamy, faint, hardly visible, imperceptible, indistinct, indistinctly, insensible, nebulous, nebulously, shadowy, slightly, soft, tentative, vaguely), geçiştirmek (fudge, Parry, pass off, slide over), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), hafife alma (considering unimportant, extenuation), hafife almak (consider unimportant, coquet, disdain, extenuate, piddle, soft pedal, trifle, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), önemsememe (disregard), hakaret etmek (affront, defame, desecrate, give affront to, insult, outrage, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., vituperate), zayıf karakterli (weak-kneed, weak-minded), hiçe saymak (challenge, disregard, pay no attention, set at naught, set at nought, snap one's fingers at, spurn, swamp, upstage), ihmal etmek (be careless, be disregardful of, default on, disregard, fail, forget, leave out, let things slide, neglect, omit), küçük (baby, bantam, child, fiddling, inconsiderable, infant, infra-, junior, kid, little, micro-, mini, mini-, minor, minuscule, nano-, not healthy, one horse, paltry, peanut, petit, petty, piddling, poky, remote, small, snug, tiddly, trifling, trivial, undersized, young, younger), karaktersiz (characterless, dishonest, fiberless, wishy washy, worthless), narin (delicate, fine, fragile, frail, slender, slim, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, willowy), onur kırma (insult), zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slur, snub). (various references)

Turkmen 

sдhelзe. (various references)

Ukrainian

худорлявий (bony, gaunt, lank, slab-sided), третирувати (cold shoulder, stepmother, walk over), нехтувати (disdain, neglect, omit, override), нехтування (neglect), неміцний (insubstantial, rotten, shaky, sketchy, sleazy, ticklish, unsubstantial, unwholesome, weak), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, small, trivial). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sơ sài; không đang kể, sự xem khinh, sự coi thường (contempt, defiance, profanation, undervaluation), sự coi nhẹ, yết ớt nhẹ, thon (taper), qua loa, mong manh (insubstantial), mảnh khảnh (delicate, slender, slim, svelte), mỏng mảnh (feeble, pasteboard, slightly), gầy (gaunt, lank). (various references)

Welsh

cnith (blow, pluck, slight touch). (various references)

abicere, abiciam, abiciamus, abicias, abiciat, abicient, abicientes, abiciet, abicietur, abicio, abicis, abicit, abicite, abicitis, abicitur, abiecerat, abiecerint, abiecerunt, abieci, abiecisset, abiecisti, abiecit, abiecta, abiectae, abiectam, abiecti, abiectum, abiectus, gracilis, humile, humilem, humiles, humili, humilia, humilibus, humilior, humiliora, humiliorem, humiliores, humilis, humilium, humillima, levana, leve, levem, levi, levia, levidensis, leviora, leviores, levis, levius, leviusque, neglectum, parcam, parcas, parce, parcis, parco, parvipendens, parvipendent, parvula, parvulam, parvulas, parvuli, parvulis, parvulo, parvulorum, parvulos, parvulum, parvulus, tenuis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slight": slighted, slighter, slightest, slighting, slightingly, slightly, slightness, slightnesses, slights. (additional references)

Words ending with "slight": gaslight, mislight. (additional references)

Words containing "slight": gaslights, mislighted, mislighting, mislights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shight, slieght, sliht, slite, slyt, sright, stight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lights.

-1 letter: gilts, hilts, light, sight.

-2 letters: ghis, gilt, gist, gits, hilt, hist, hits, list, lits, sigh, silt, sith, slit, this, tils.

-3 letters: ghi, git, his, hit, its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis.

-4 letters: hi, is, it, li, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: alights, blights, flights, plights, sightly, sleight, slights.

+2 letters: delights, gaslight, glitches, hustling, lathings, lightens, lighters, lightest, lightish, mislight, relights, skylight, sleights, slighted, slighter, slightly, sunlight, uplights.

+3 letters: athelings, blighters, blighties, chitlings, clothings, daylights, fanlights, gaslights, ghastlier, ghostlier, ghostlike, giltheads, goldsmith, hightails, histology, hosteling, lightfast, lightings, lightless, lightness, lightship, lightsome, litharges, loathings, lowlights, megaliths, mislights, nightless, penlights, plighters, regoliths, rushlight, safelight, shuttling, sidelight, sightless, sightlier, skylights, sleuthing, slightest, slighting, slingshot, spotlight, sprightly, starlight, stoplight, sunlights, thirlages, triglyphs, twilights, unsightly, whistling.