Slim

Definition: Slim

Slim

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. Small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus".

Verb

1. Take off weight.

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

Date "slim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Slim \Slim\, adjective. [Comparative Slimmer; superlative Slimmest.]. (references)

Computing

Multilingual Slang

Slang

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

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Synonyms: Slim

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

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.

Crosswords: Slim

Afrikaan (clever, cunning, sly, smart), Dutch (clever, cunning, difficult, hard, inconvenient, sly, smart), Irish (sleek, slender).

Anything slim! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm sure you realize the chances of sustaining oneself as a dancer long-term are so slim. Have you thought about what you'll do in the event that things don't work out in the long run (Jack & Jill; writing credit: Kathy Giaconia)

I'm Slim Shady (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas and they're all vile, baby (Beach Blanket Bingo; writing credit: William Asher; Leo Townsend)

Your chances of jackin me are slim G (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Fatboy Slim, that guy kicks ass. (The Rockafeller Skank; performing artist: Fatboy Slim)

But down home they call me Slim (You Don't Mess Around With Jim; performing artist: Jim Croce)

A slim chance in tight pants is what you are (Don't Shed A Tear; performing artist: Paul Carrack)

Well you're slim and you're weak (Get It On; performing artist: T Rex)

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings. (references; author: unknown)

De Duivel te slim (1960)

Slim Carter (1957)

The Fable of the Slim Girl Who Tried to Keep a Date That Was Never Made (1916)

When Slim Was Home Cured (1916)

The Slim Princess (1915)

Una Paloma Blanca (performing artist: Slim Whitman)

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

Books

• The Seven Secrets of Slim People (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Slim & The Supreme Angels: Blind Man - Live in Danville, VA (reference)

• Slim Cooking:Eggs Benedict (reference)

• Slim Cooking: Barbecue & Party Foods (reference)

• Slim Cooking-Light Lunch Fare (reference)

• Slim Cooking:Lightweight Lasagna (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cadillac Slim [BOX SET] (reference)

• Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon (reference)

• Jackrabbit Slim (reference)

• Milwaukee Slim Blues Band (reference)

• The Slim Shady LP [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Sony DVP-NS315S Slim Design DVD Player (Silver) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cooper Group 21736 Extra Slim Taper File with Handle (reference)

• Holmes 1500-Watt Slim Profile Heater, 12in.H x 10 1/4in.W x 6in.D, White (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Chief Electronics Technician Slim Tittle hooking up batteries Power source for microwave navigation system Party off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Ambulances- Horsedrawn : View of Stretcher with wounded man, from Battle of Slim Buttes. (War Against the Sioux Indians - 1876). Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Slim Sallee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slim Jim. Credit: Library of Congress.

Well, Slim, if we pay them as we are paid, why we're sure going to get a real bargain : Well, Bill here's where we get a real bargain in some jewelry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Th' kinky, dandy, slinkin' slim. Credit: Library of Congress.

Silver Bay Hotel & landing from Slim Point, Lake George, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Adventures of Slim and Spud. "Call me a muttonhead, will ya?". Credit: Library of Congress.

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He saw himself walking about the grounds watching the sports in Clongowes and eating slim jim out of his cricketcap

Fried dough in drippings if money was slim, dough fried crisp and brown and the drippings poured over it.

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Health

Echocardiogram In an echocardiogram, the doctor uses sound waves to map the structure of the heart by placing a slim device that looks like a microphone on the patient's chest. (references)

Business

Intense competition among foreign companies can lead to price undercutting, which destroys the already slim profit margin on the project. (references)

They find that selling sunflower oil in bulk to the world, which can be bottled in any country, offers slim margins since commodity prices of ordinary oils apply. (references)

However, one industry source familiar with the hazardous waste sector in Thailand believes that opportunities in this sector will, in fact, be quite slim at least of the near future. (references)

Economic History

Panama

The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) in coalition with smaller parties holds a slim majority in the Legislative Assembly. (references)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

In 1998, Prime Minister Mitchell and the NDP were returned to power for an unprecedented fourth term but only with a slim margin of eight seats to seven seats for the Unity Labour Party (ULP). (references)

St. Lucia

Seeking to increase his slim margin, Prime Minister Compton suspended parliament and called new elections on April 30. This unprecedented snap election, however, gave Compton the same results as before--the UWP retained nine seats and the SLP eight. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

The IFP continues to hold a slim majority in Kwa-Zulu Natal and its urban center, Durban. (references)

Political Rights

Cape Verde

In January Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, former president of the PAICV, was elected by a slim margin of 13 votes over the country's former Prime Minister and MPD president, Carlos Veiga. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

During the 1998 election, the ruling New Democratic Party won a slim 1-seat majority (8 of 15) in Parliament, despite losing the popular vote by a 55 to 45 percent margin to the opposition Unity Labour Party. (references)

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

Expressions using "slim": keep slim ♦ slim down ♦ slim girl ♦ slim hole ♦ slim odds ♦ slim waisted. Additional references.

Beginning with "slim": slim-bladed, slim-bodied, slim-down, slim-fingered, slim-fitting, slim-jim, slim-line, slim-waisted, slim-weight, slim-white.

Ending with "slim": jodhpur-slim, needle-slim, pencil-slim, rapier-slim, reed-slim, stay-slim, ultra-slim, wand-slim.

Afrikaans

verslank, skraal (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin). (various references)

Albanian

shtathedhur (jimp, svelte, willowy), 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, slender, 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, slender, slight, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slender, slight, small, svelte, thin), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏خفف وزنه, ‏صعف, ‏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, slight, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏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, slight, 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), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), ‏نحل (attenuate, decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, melt, pervert, pine, resolve, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏ممشوق (svelte), ‏نقص الوزن, ‏هزل (attenuate, badinage, emaciate, extenuate, fun, humor, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, reduce, thin), ‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏هفهاف (svelte), ‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily), ‏مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, lax, rocky, scruffy, sleazy, slight, thin, tumbledown), ‏قلل (decrease, diminish, lessen, make less, minify, minimize, reduce). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строен (slender, 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, slender, slight, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), отслабвам (abate, become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, become weak, diminish, languish, lose weight, moderate, sag, thin, weaken, wind down, wither), недостатъчен (deficient, exiguous, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, insufficient, scanty, scarce, short, skimpy, slender, wanting), малък (bijou, light, little, measurable, paltry, piccolo, pocket, remote, slight, small, tiddly, toy, venial, young), безскрупулен (conscienceless, ruthless, sharp, slippery, slippy, smart, unconscionable, unconscious, unscrupulous), правя да отслабне, правя да да изглежда по-слаб, пазя диета за отслабване, долнокачествен (crummy, cut rate, gross, hedge, inferior, leaden, low-grade, pinchbeck, ropy, scrubby, sleazy, third class, tinpot, trashy). (various references)

Chinese 

纖細 (fine, tender), 瘦長 , 亭亭玉立. (various references)

Czech

zhubnout (grow thin, thin down), tenký (fine, skinny, small, tenuous, thin), redukovat (decrease, deflate, reduce), nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scant, scanty, slight, small, thin, trifling), hubený (jejune, lank, lean, slender, spare, stingy, thin), štíhlý (lean, slender, slight, svelte). (various references)

Danish

slank (slender). (various references)

Dutch

tenger (slender), slank (slender), rank (slender, twig). (various references)

Esperanto

sveltiĝadi, svelta (slender). (various references)

Faeroese

snotiligur (chic, slender), mjáur (graceful, slender), klænur (gaunt, graceful, lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Farsi 

نازک (Attenuate, Eggshell, Ethereal, Fine, Frail, Gossamer, Soft, Spare, Tenuous), لاغرشدن وکردن , لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scraggy, Scrannel, Skinny, Slight, Slink, Spare, Thin, Toom, Wizen), باریک اندام (Slight). (various references)

Finnish

solakka (slender), hoikka (lank, slender, thin), hintelä (lanky, slender). (various references)

French

suivre un régime amaigrissant, SLIM, svelte (slender), maigrir, alléger (slake), amaigrir, amaigris, amaigrissons, amincir (slenderize), décrocher, faire maigrir, insignifiant (slight), louche, élancé (slender), maigre (slender, slight, slink), menu (slender), mince (slender, slight), miteux (sleazy, slight), moteur � induction linéaire monoinducteur, moteur linéaire � simple inducteur, perdre du poids, rusé (slick, sly), médiocre. (various references)

German

schlank (neat, scrawny, slender, slenderly, slimly, svelte). (various references)

Greek 

κινητήρας SLIM (single-primary type linear motor, single-sided linear motor), γραμμικός κινητήρας απλού επαγωγέα (single-primary type linear motor, single-sided linear motor), ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, thin), ισχναίνω (emaciate, macerate), λυγερόσ (lightsome, lissom, lissome), λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, refined, sleazy, slender, slight, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish), λεπτύνω (attenuate, slenderize, thin), λεπτύνομαι (thin), αδυνατίζω (debilitate, depress, pine, tabefy, unman, weaken). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרזות (reduce, slenderize), לר�"ת במשקל (lose weight), �"ק (delicate, fine, flimsy, lean, slender, slight, spindly, thin), רז�" (lean, macilent, meagre, peak, peaky, skinny, slender, spare, thin). (various references)

Hungarian

vékony (attenuate, fine, flimsy, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, sheer, sleazy, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, thinner, wispy). (various references)

Icelandic

mjór (gaunt, lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Indonesian

ramping (slender), merampingkan, lanjai (slender), langsing (slender, slight), ampai (slender). (various references)

Italian

snello (agile, easy, flowing, scrawny, slender, svelte). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

すれ違う (a lot, bluntly, consecutively, heartbreakingly, heavily, making rude entrance, pass with no objection, profoundly, ragged, slender, throbbing pain, throughout, to disagree, to miss each other, to pass by one another, torn), 柳 (willow), 楊 (willow), スポ� � (heart, intelligent building, smart, smart building, stylish, tenacity), スラ� 街 (bunting on two strikes, bust-waist-hip measurements, petticoat, slalom, sleep, sleeve, slimmer, slip, slippers, slit, slum quarters, slump, slurry, three-piece suit, three-wheeled bicycle, vital statistics). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

す�"なり (pass with no objection, slender), スマート (smart, stylish), スリ� , やなぎ (willow). (various references)

Korean 

호리호리한. (various references)

Lombard

svelt (slender). (various references)

Manx

thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, 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), thannaghey (attenuate, bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, emaciate, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduce, reduction, shallow, slenderize, thin), shangaghey (emaciate, macerate, maceration, reduce, slenderization, slenderize, slimming, thinning, waste, waste as body), shang (emaciated, gaunt, gracile, lank, lanky, lean, skinny, slender, slight, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy), keylaghey (choke, choke bore, constrict, constriction, contraction, dilute, dilution, taper, watering, weaken, weaken as mixture, weakening, whittle down), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lanky, lean, narrow, slender, slight, small, spare, tapered, thin, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy). (various references)

Papiamen

flaku (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), flako (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), delegá (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin). (various references)

Pig Latin

imslay.(various references)

Polish

zgrabny (slender). (various references)

Portuguese

esguio (lank, lanky, lean, rangy, slender, thin), esbelto (elegant, graceful, jimp, lank, slender, thin, willowy). (various references)

Romanian

suplu (elastic, flexible, flexile, graceful, light, lissom, lithe, slender, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding), subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), zvelt (rakish, slender, stalky, supple, tall), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, purblind, slender, thin, tight). (various references)

Russian 

тонкий (delicate, fine, finespun, gauzy, keen, papery, sleazy, slender, slimline, subtle, thin, twiggy, wispy), незначительный;тонкий;стройный, изящный (airy, dainty, delicate, dinky, distingue, dressy, elegant, fine, jimp, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, polite, refined, slinky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suvonjav (lank, lean, spare), slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), vitak (jimp, lissom, lissome, slender, slinky, svelte, willowy), učiniti vitkim (slenderize). (various references)

Spanish

esbelto (chic, jimp, neat, scrawny, slender, svelte). (various references)

Swahili

-embamba (narrow, slender), embamba (narrow, slender). (various references)

Swedish

smärt (jimp, slender, willowy), smal (close, cramped, gaunt, lean, narrow, slender, tenuous, thin), gänglig (lanky, slender). (various references)

Thai

เล็กน้อย (fidding, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, some, tiddly), ผอมเพรียว, ทำให้ล�"ขนา�"ลง. (various references)

Turkish

zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), zayıflamak (be on the wane, decay, decline, fade, grow lean, grow thin, loose flesh, peak, reduce, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken), zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), 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, slender, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), rejimle zayıflamak, rejim yapmak (diet, train down), narin (delicate, fine, fragile, frail, slender, slight, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, willowy), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), kilo vermek (lose weight), incelmek (become slimer, fine away, fine down, fine off, get thinner, refine, slenderize, subtilize, taper, taper off, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), ince belli (slender, slender waisted, slim waisted, waspish), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), azıcık (a little, bare, dollop, few, fractional, lick, little, only just, slight, spot of, sprinkle of, sprinkling of, thimbleful), az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, little, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references)

Turkmen 

syratly (slender). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити струнким (slenderize), худнути (attenuate, emaciate, grow thin, lose weight, reduce, slenderize, thin, thin away), тонкий (acute, capillary, gauzy, nice, sleazy, soft, spidery, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin), тендітний (delicate, fragile, weak), неістотний (accidental, immaterial, incidental, non essential, unessential, unsubstantial), намагатися схуднути. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sơ s� i (meager, meagre, sketchy), xảo quyệt (artful, crafty, cunning, designing, machiavellian, politic, politically, tricky), thon ít ỏi (slender), nghèo n� n (miserable, poorly), mảnh khảnh (delicate, slender, slight, svelte), mảnh dẻ (fragile, gracile, slender, tender, thin), mỏng manh láu, khôn lỏi, bùn loãng nhớt cá chất nhớ bẩn Bitum lỏng, bùn (mire, quaggy, silt). (various references)

Yucatec

bek'ech (slender). (various references)

gracilis, tenuis. (various references)

slim. (various references)

svelto. (various references)

slim. (various references)

svelte. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slim": slime, slimeball, slimeballs, slimed, slimes, slimier, slimiest, slimily, sliminess, sliminesses, sliming, slimly, slimmed, slimmer, slimmers, slimmest, slimming, slimnastics, slimness, slimnesses, slimpsier, slimpsiest, slimpsy, slims, slimsier, slimsiest, slimsy, slimy. (additional references)

Words containing "slim": beslime, beslimed, beslimes, besliming, dislimn, dislimned, dislimning, dislimns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alim, Ilim, islam, islimi, lsi, msvibm, olim, plimm, scim, Seim, selin, sfim, Siim, silium, silj, silm, Silom, silq, silum, sim, siml, simm, slamm, slamo, slej, slen, sli, slig, slimb, Slimp, sliv, sliy, sloin, slyh, slyn, spim, splam, stim, stlin, sulin, Syleyma, Zalim. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mils.

-1 letter: ism, lis, mil, mis, sim.

-2 letters: is, li, mi, si.

+1 letter: films, glims, limas, limbs, limes, limns, limos, limps, mails, miles, milks, mills, milos, milts, moils, salmi, slime, slims, slimy, smile.

+2 letters: blimps, claims, climbs, climes, dismal, elemis, emails, flimsy, gimels, glimes, holism, impels, kelims, kilims, lamias, limans, limbas, limbos, limbus, limens, limeys, limits, limpas, limpsy, linums, lissom, litmus, lyrism, mailes, maills, mesial, miauls, milers, milles, milpas, miskal, mislay, misled, mislie, mislit, missal, missel, molies, muesli, mulish, muslin, salami, salmis, samiel, simile, simlin, simnel, simple, simply, slimed, slimes, slimly, slimsy, smalti, smilax, smiled, smiler, smiles, smiley.