Slightly

Definition: Slightly

Slightly

Adverb

1. To a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other".

2. In a slim or slender manner; "a slenderly built woman"; "slightly built".

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

Date "slightly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Slightly

Contempt

Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful).

Smallness

Adverb: to a small extent, on a small scale; a little bit, a wee bit; slightly; Adjective: imperceptibly; miserably, wretchedly; insufficiently; imperfectly; faintly; passably, pretty well, well enough.

Unimportance

Adverb: slightly; Adjective: rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for aught one cares.

Crosswords: Slightly

Not with a slightly smaller nose or slightly larger breasts (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

Frankly, I think the odds are slightly in your favor at hand-fighting (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Let's say that both, on this October evening, trembled slightly. (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard)

No! Arrived, dinner has arrived is a slightly better translation (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; writing credit: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Robert Towne)

I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders dependent upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

And watch you roll your eyes when I'm slightly off key (I Love The Way You Love Me; performing artist: John Michael Montgomery)

And flowing slightly from his toes (Let there be more light; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

And If it happens again, I might move so slightly (I Want You; performing artist: Savage Garden)

Slightly insane, but who looked rather bored (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked. (references; author: unknown)

Santa's sack sags slightly. (references; author: unknown)

The Slightly Fallen Angel (1959)

Slightly Scarlet (1956)

The Faith Healer's Manual for the Slightly Inebriated (2002)

Slightly Bent TV (1999)

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

Books

• Slightly Wicked (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Slightly Scarlet (reference)

• A Slightly Pregnant Man (reference)

• Slightly Honorable (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Two Classic Albums from The Limeliters: The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters and Sing Out! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

The central portion of this mole is a complex papule. The periphery of the lesion is macular, irregular, indistinct and slightly pink. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Yersinia pestis grows well on most standard laboratory media, after 48-72 hours, grey-white to slightly yellow opaque raised, irregular “fried egg” morphology; alternatively colonies may have a “hammered copper” shiny surface. Credit: CDC.

Common characteristics of Culiseta melanura include a long and curved proboscis, a dark-scaled abdomen, and slightly enlarged dark scales on the outer wing. This mosquito is a vector of the eastern equine encephalitis virus in bird populations. Credit: CDC.

"Gim 16 Krakow II" (movie) by Anna Leśniak. The name of her school in a slightly different font.

Surgeon fish, Naso unicornis, Acanthurus olivaceus, Acanthurus dussumieri, on reef during a low slightly greater turbidity episode. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 45. Milne-Edwards mounting developed by Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards for use with reversing thermometers on the TALISMAN scientific expedition of the French National Marine Administration in the North Atlantic in 1883. Two innovations were associated with this instrument. A slightly modified version of this mounting made by Paul Duimage was used on the HIRONDELLE. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Three soil profiles show the differences in slightly eroded versus severely eroded soils in central Iowa. Dark colored, highly productive soil on the left. Credit: Lynn Betts.

[Passed Assistant Surgeon Rupert Blue, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, San Francisco, Calif.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Truckload of slightly wounded men of the 79th Division watch German prisoners pass by near Malancourt, September 28, 1918 / U.S. Signal Corps photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Shelling the coast of New Guinea in early 1944. Photo is dated 10 February 1944, but may have been taken during the Madang-Alexishafen bombardment of 25-26 January 1944. This view looks forward on the starboard side from the midships 20mm gun gallery. Note tracers, which appear several feet in front of gun muzzles. Those from the four starboard side 5"/25 guns have a higher trajectory than the tracers fired from the forward 6"/47 gun turrets. Tracers from the 6-inch guns appear to wobble slightly. Credit: NAVY.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Earl was listening with a slightly incredulous smile

Gravity, said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose

Then, indeed, Mr. Dimmesdale shuddered, and slightly stirred

He was very pale, and trembled slightly.

On slightly higher ground two cars were started and their lights on.

This frame, so slightly clad, was a sort of crystallization around me, and reacted on the builder

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The food is slightly warmed. (references)

Speak slightly louder than normal, but don't shout. (references)

That is, the DNA is slightly different in mutated genes. (references)

Business

Men use slightly more time than women. (references)

Forecasts for 2000 predicted a slightly lower growth rate of 3.6 percent. (references)

The production of ships in Poland has been growing slightly over the last few years. (references)

Children

Pakistan

NGO's estimated that this number remained stable or increased slightly during the year. (references)

Algeria

Boys and girls generally receive the same treatment in education, although girls are slightly more likely to drop out. (references)

Jordan

More than 90 percent of school-age children attend primary schools, although the percentage among males is slightly higher than that among females. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

The printer pled guilty in May and was fined slightly over $1,000 (4,000 RM). The editor's case still is pending. (references)

Slovak Republic

The Roma minority continued to be largely absent on talk shows and children's programming; however, the situation improved slightly during the year. (references)

Czech Republic

In 2000 border police prevented 32,720 illegal entry attempts, up slightly from 1999. A growing concern is the smuggling of large groups of refugees and economic migrants into and across the country, which lacks specific laws criminalizing alien smuggling. (references)

Discrimination

Bhutan

It claims that ethnic Nepalese fill 22 percent of government jobs, which is slightly less than their proportion of the total population. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Mining production grew slightly in 2000. (references)

Kuwait

Terrain: Flat to slightly undulating desert plain. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

Al-Sider was injured slightly. (references)

Georgia

Local human rights NGO's reported that the Government was slightly less responsive during the year. (references)

New Zealand

Charges of police abuse increased slightly from 2000, and there were instances of police abuse during the year. (references)

Minorities

Ghana

In the process, the woman was injured slightly, and a crowd formed. (references)

Croatia

In May skinheads in Zagreb attacked a teenage Romani girl with knives and slightly wounded her. (references)

Syria

No one was injured in the attack; however, the synagogue was damaged slightly and was closed for approximately 1 month. (references)

Political Economy

Honduras

The country has a population of slightly more than 6 million. (references)

BRAZIL

This was down slightly from debt at the end of 2000, $217 billion. (references)

Guatemala

Lynchings and mob violence continued at a slightly higher rate than in 2000. (references)

Political Rights

Germany

Slightly under 31 percent of the members of the Bundestag are female. (references)

Honduras

Of 10,000 Hondurans who registered to vote abroad, slightly more than 1,000 voted. (references)

Zambia

The MMD won 69 out of 150 parliamentary seats, leaving it slightly short of a majority; the remaining 81 seats were divided among several opposition parties and 1 independent member. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

Intermediate goods are financed at slightly more favorable rates and terms. (references)

Korea

Debentures are a financing alternate, although slightly more expensive than bank financing. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The fees associated with processing exchange transactions are high and vary slightly between banks. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

Outside the capital, dress is slightly more casual. (references)

Pakistan

The hotel rates in Karachi may be slightly lower than those of Islamabad. (references)

Croatia

In coastal tourist areas, prices might run slightly higher during peak season. (references)

Women

Bhutan

Women in unskilled jobs generally are paid slightly less than men. (references)

Estonia

Women constitute slightly more than half of the work force: they also carry most major household responsibilities. (references)

Brunei

While some previous inequities have been eliminated, women in month-to-month positions continue to receive slightly less annual leave and fewer allowances than their male and female counterparts in permanent positions. (references)

Worker Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

A slightly higher minimum wage rate applies for construction workers. (references)

Barbados

Overall union membership declined slightly during the years due to job losses in some industries. (references)

Yugoslavia

Private enterprises use the minimum wage as a guide but tend to pay slightly higher average wages. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slightly": fry slightly ♦ get slightly wet ♦ open slightly ♦ rock slightly ♦ salt slightly ♦ sky slightly clouded ♦ slightly clouded ♦ slightly clouded sky ♦ slightly dried and slightly smoked ♦ slightly drunk ♦ slightly screened area ♦ slightly stable ♦ slightly unstable ♦ slightly warm ♦ slightly wet ♦ slightly wounded ♦ tear slightly ♦ wet slightly. Additional references.

Beginning with "slightly": slightly-absurd-boyish-middle-aged, slightly-accented, slightly-built, slightly-dodgy, slightly-injured, slightly-less-ephemeral, slightly-modified, slightly-raise.

Ending with "slightly": ever-so-slightly.

Containing "slightly": just-slightly-strange.

Albanian

pak (briefly, dab, few, just, just a little, little, narrowly, rather, some, somewhat, to some extent), lehtë (airily, easily, easy, facile, faintly, light, lightly, readily), dobësisht (meanly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قليلا (somewhat), ‏جزئيا (half, parcel, part, part time, part way, partially, partly), ‏برفق (lightly, softly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабо (faintly, flabbily, low, meanly, remotely, weakly), тънко, малко (any, awhile, bit, few, little, remotely, several, some, somewhat, sort of). (various references)

Chinese 

轻微地, 略 (outline, plan, rather, strategy, summary, to plunder, to rob, to summarize). (various references)

Czech

trochu (rather, some). (various references)

Danish

staalet blev smeltet i Siemens-Martin ovn og delvist beroliget med silicium (this was an Open Hearth steel slightly killed with silicon), sandbank med lavvandet vedvarende daekke af havvand (sand bank which is slightly covered by seawater all the time), strejfe (to touch slightly), svagt afrundet stoettekant (slightly rounded supporting edge), svagt polymeriseret (slightly polymerised), svagt skraanende transmissionsvej (slightly inclined path), svagt sur afluftet miljø (anaerobic slightly acidic medium), makroaetsning og Baumann-aftryk af langssnit gennem blokkens akse udviser moerke linier,der er afboejet noget opad i retning af aksen i blokkens top,og som kaldes omvendte V-sejgringer eller A-sejgringer (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates), det maa antages,at dette temperaturomraade er blevet en smule overskredet,saaledes at en uforholdsmaessig vaekst af karbiderne er indtruffet (it is assumed that this temperature range was slightly exceeded so taht the carbides are coarser than usual), et staerkt fibret, kun lidt krystallinsk brud (slightly crystalline fracture), flad stumpsoem (slightly reinforced butt weld), for at forebygge hyppig efterspaending maa den forspaending, der paalaegges turbineboltene, kun falde lidt ved relaxation (the tension under which turbine bolts are placed when tightened should only be slightly reduced by relaxation, to prevent frequent retightening), i et langssnit er soejlekrystallerne i almindelighed noget afboejede i retning mod toppen af blokken (in a longitudinal section the columnar grains are usually slightly inclined towards the top of the ingot), ikke direkte synligt område (indirect visible area, indirectly visible area, slightly screened area), Laue-pletterne er udtvaerede;i den polygoniserede tilstand bliver Debye-Scherrer-linierne en smule smallere,fordi underkorngraenserne bliver fine,men de udtvaerede Laue-pletter deler sig op (since the sub-grain size remains fine but the asterism spots break up, the Laue-spots show a marked asterism. In the polygonized condition the Debye-Scherrer lines become only slightly finer), let stabil (slightly stable), let toerret eller let roeget (slightly dried and slightly smoked), bitumenemulsionsers viskositet er i modsaetning til de vandfrie bituminoese bindemidler kun i ringe grand afhaengig af temperaturen (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)), letskyet himmel (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), ved en ringe overskridelse af den oenskede temperatur kan der ske begyndende smeltning (if this temperature is only slightly exceeded, melting may start to occur), overflade med meget lav ruhed (slightly rough surface), paa overfladen kan tegn paa en mulig ukontrolleret udblaesning variere fra en let gasblandet borevaeske over en svaert gasblandet borevaeske til produktion af gas,olie eller vand (indications of potential blowouts at the surface vary from slightly gas-cut mud to heavily gas-cut mud to production of gas and mud), ved efterforskningsboringer kaldes det roer,der gaar fra boreplatformen ned til toppen af boringen,for en returledning,medens den foerste laengde foringsroer,der gaar fra toppen af boringen et lille stykke over det oeverste lag paa havbunden og ned gennem (in exploratory drilling, the riser tube running from the vessel down to the wellhead is normally called a riser while the first casing joint running from the wellhead slightly above the mud line down through the template to 30-100 feet below the mud line is called a conductor or), let ustabil (slightly unstable). (various references)

Dutch

schampen (to touch slightly), licht raken (to touch slightly), bij exploratieboringen wordt de buis die van het boorschip naar de putmond loopt gewoonlijk stijgbuis genoemd,terwijl de eerste bekledingsbuis die van de putmond,even boven de zachte-bodemgrens via de putmondbasis tot 30-100 voet beneden die grens loopt,e (in exploratory drilling, the riser tube running from the vessel down to the wellhead is normally called a riser while the first casing joint running from the wellhead slightly above the mud line down through the template to 30-100 feet below the mud line is called a conductor or), blijvend onder ondiep zeewater staande zandbank (sand bank which is slightly covered by seawater all the time), de Laue-velden zijn uitgesproken stervormig;in gepolygoniseerde toestand worden de Debye-Scherrer-lijnen iets fijner,terwijl de subkristallen klein blijven.Echter,de Laue-velden delen zich (since the sub-grain size remains fine but the asterism spots break up, the Laue-spots show a marked asterism. In the polygonized condition the Debye-Scherrer lines become only slightly finer), de samenstelling van wustiet wijkt enigszins van de stochiometrische samenstelling af (the composition of wüstite departs slightly from stoichiometry), de spankracht van de bouten in de turbine mag door relaxatie slechts weinig verminderen, omdat ze anders te vaak moeten worden aangehaald (the tension under which turbine bolts are placed when tightened should only be slightly reduced by relaxation, to prevent frequent retightening), enigszins instabiel (slightly unstable), enigszins stabiel (slightly stable), het staal werd in een Siemens-Martin-oven gesmolten en licht gekalmeerd met silicium (this was an Open Hearth steel slightly killed with silicon), in een langsdoorsnede zijn de stengelkristallen over het algemeen onder een kleine hoek naar de kop van het blok gericht (in a longitudinal section the columnar grains are usually slightly inclined towards the top of the ingot), las met gestreken sluitlaag (slightly reinforced butt weld), licht afgerond steunvlak (slightly rounded supporting edge), licht gepolymeriseerd (slightly polymerised), zwak zuur ontlucht milieu (anaerobic slightly acidic medium), lichtbewolkte hemel (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), lichtgedroogd of lichtgerookt (slightly dried and slightly smoked), licht-hellend pad (slightly inclined path), macro-etsen en Baumann-afdrukken van de langsdoorsnede van een gietblok maakt donkere lijnen zichtbaar die iets hellen in de richting van de kop van het blok en die omgekeerde of inverse V-uitscheidingen of ook A-uitscheidingen worden genoemd (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates), nog maar net stabiel (slightly stable), verschijnselen die duiden op een mogelijke eruptie aan het oppervlak variëren van licht of sterk gashoudende spoeling tot de produktie van gas en spoeling (indications of potential blowouts at the surface vary from slightly gas-cut mud to heavily gas-cut mud to production of gas and mud), waarschijnlijk is dit temperatuurgebied iets overschreden zodat de carbiden grover zijn dan normaal is (it is assumed that this temperature range was slightly exceeded so taht the carbides are coarser than usual), wat hun vloeibaarheidsgraad betreft zijn bitumenemulsies,in tegenstelling tot de watervrije bitumineuze bindmiddelen,slechts in beperkte mate afhankelijk van temperatuur (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)), zeer glad oppervlak (slightly rough surface), zeer vezelige, hoewel nog enigszins kristallijne breuk (slightly crystalline fracture), zwak instabiel (slightly unstable), licht geplette kiem (rolled germ, slightly flattened germ). (various references)

Finnish

hieman (a little, somewhat). (various references)

French

un peu, légèrement. (various references)

German

schwach (brittle, dim, dimly, docile, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, flimsily, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, infirm, infirmly, lame, languid, light, low, obscurely, poor, sinewed, slack, slender, slight, soft, thinly, uncertain, unsound, weak, weakly, wishy washy), geringfügig (fractional, insignificant, insubstantial, marginal, marginally, minor, negligible, pettily, petty, slight, trivial). (various references)

Greek 

λίγο (a dash of, a touch of, little). (various references)

Hebrew 

משהו (anything, aught, something, somewhat), מעט (few, less, little, mite, some, sprinkling), קמעה (a little), קלות (ease, easiness, facility, lightness, simplicity), קצת (a few, little, some, somewhat, trifle), כל שהו (somewhat, whatever). (various references)

Hungarian

kissé (poorly, to chill), kevéssé (little, poorly), alig (barely, by the skin of one's, faint, hardly, hardly ever, imperceptibly, just, little or not at all, narrowly, only just, scantily, scarcely, sparingly). (various references)

Indonesian

tercecah (brush against, touch slightly), mencecah (hit slightly, pinch, touch lightly), landai (slope slightly (of hillocks), genggang (ajar, fissure, slightly open, split), cerecak (slightly spotted), cercak (slightly pock marked), berkutik (move slightly). (various references)

Italian

sottilmente, scarsamente (poorly), lievemente (fainly, lightly, softly), leggermente (lightly), esilmente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄薄 (a little, thinly, vaguely), 薄々 (a little, thinly, vaguely), ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash), 心持ち (feeling, mood, somewhat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うすうす (a little, thinly, vaguely), ほんのり (faintly), こころもち (feeling, mood, somewhat). (various references)

Korean 

경미하게. (various references)

Manx

red beg (a bit, rather, somewhat), beggan (a few, faintly, little, partly, small piece, somewhat). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightlyslay.(various references)

Portuguese

superficialmente (superficially), levemente (cose, lightly, little), fracamente (low, weakly). (various references)

Romanian

puţin (a bit, a little, dose, exiguous, little, meager, meagre, mouthful, rather, reduced, shallow, short, small, some, something, somewhat), oleacã. (various references)

Russian 

немного (a bit, a little, a small of, awhile, few, one or two, quite a bit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neznatno (remotely), malo (few, kind of, little, little: a little, small, some, somewhat). (various references)

Spanish

ligeramente (flippantly, light, lightly, marginally, nimbly, thin). (various references)

Swedish

obetydligt. (various references)

Thai

อย่างเล็กน้อย (lightly, something). (various references)

Turkish

kuvvetsizce, hafiften, hafifçe (lightly), belli belirsiz (dreaming, dreamy, faint, hardly visible, imperceptible, indistinct, indistinctly, insensible, nebulous, nebulously, shadowy, slight, soft, tentative, vaguely), çok az (beggarly, spot of). (various references)

Turkmen 

sдhel (a little). (various references)

Ukrainian

злегка (lightly), ледь (hardly, just, lightly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sơ, yếu ớt qua, mỏng mảnh (feeble, pasteboard, slight), hơi (draught, rather, remote, somewhat, unexhausted, vapour). (various references)

aliquantum, leviter. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Slightly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sightly, slighttly. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lightly, sightly.

-2 letters: ghylls, lights, slight, stilly, thills.

-3 letters: ghyll, gills, gilly, gilts, hills, hilly, hilts, light, lilts, shill, shily, sight, silly, silty, slily, still, styli, thill, tills, yills.

-4 letters: ghis, gill, gilt, gist, gits, hill, hilt, hist, hits, ills, illy, lilt, lily, list, lits, sigh, sill, silt, sith, slit, syli, this, till, tils.

+3 letters: lightsomely, sightlessly, slightingly.

+4 letters: insightfully, sprightfully, weightlessly.