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slender - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'slender' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Slender [ superl.]
- Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
- Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
- Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
- Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
- Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
- Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Meaning of 'slender' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . slender [ s]
Meaning (1):
- having little width in proportion to the length or height
Example in sentence:
  • a slender pole
Meaning (2):
- small in quantity
Example in sentence:
  • a slim chance of winning;
  • a small surplus;
  • slender wages
Meaning (3):
- being of delicate or slender build
Example in sentence:
  • a slim girl with straight blonde hair;
  • she was slender as a willow shoot is slender;
  • watched her slight figure cross the street
Meaning (4):
- very narrow
Example in sentence:
  • a thin line across the page