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SLENDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slender mean?
• SLENDER (adjective)
The adjective SLENDER has 4 senses:
1. being of delicate or slender build
2. very narrow
3. having little width in proportion to the length or height
4. small in quantity
Familiarity information: SLENDER used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: slenderest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being of delicate or slender build
Synonyms:
Context example:
watched her slight figure cross the street
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
slenderness (the property of an attractively thin person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very narrow
Synonyms:
slender; thin
Context example:
a thin line across the page
Similar:
narrow (not wide)
Derivation:
slenderness (relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having little width in proportion to the length or height
Context example:
a slender pole
Similar:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Derivation:
slenderness (relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Small in quantity
Synonyms:
slender; slim
Context example:
a small surplus
Similar:
little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
slenderness (the quality of being slight or inadequate)
Context examples
A slender, hollow needle used for injection or aspiration.
(Hypodermic Needle, NCI Thesaurus)
They were all linked together by slender wires.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The church with the slender spire, that stands on the top of the hill now, was not there then to tell me the time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Cancer that forms in tissues of the fallopian tube (one of two slender tubes that connect the ovaries to the uterus).
(Fallopian tube cancer, NCI Dictionary)
Any device made from a long, slender material.
(Fiber Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
A small slender fiber or filament
(Fibril, NCI Thesaurus)
A small, slender object designed to secure another object.
(Pin Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
The squire, a dark, slender stripling, spoke firmly and quickly, as one who was trained to swift action.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A long slender flexible material usually consisting of several strands woven or twisted together; a part of the body resembling a cord.
(Cord, NCI Thesaurus)
She was a slender, dark girl, with black, defiant eyes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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