having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post.
thin or slight; light and graceful: slender youths.
small in size, amount, extent, etc.; meager: a slender income.
having little value, force, or justification: slender prospects.
thin or weak, as sound.
Origin of slender
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English slendre, sclendre; origin unknown
SYNONYMS FOR slender
4 trivial, trifling.
5 fragile, feeble, fine, delicate, flimsy.
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ANTONYMS FOR slender
2 fat, stocky.
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synonym study for slender
2. Slender,slight,slim imply a tendency toward thinness. As applied to the human body, slender implies a generally attractive and pleasing thinness: slender hands.Slight often adds the idea of frailness to that of thinness: a slight, almost fragile, figure.Slim implies a lithe or delicate thinness: a slim and athletic figure.
At 73, Rhodes-Johnson wore her blond hair swept back, slender hoops in her ears.
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From a bite of cracker they are able to extract all of the nourishment that simply slides unabsorbed through the digestive tract of slender types.
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The slender body of the pen also feels lightweight and looks sophisticated, and the whole set can be stored easily, too.
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Recent studies have begun to identify the cells in the olfactory epithelium, a slender sheet of tissue that lines part of the nasal cavity, that seem vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
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Both are slender, toned, and have the butts of Victoria Secret models.
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A fat red turret squatted at each corner of the building; six slender ones overlooked the parapets and gables.
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It had an unusual appearance created by its long, slender wings.
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Maps, frequently based on slender suppositions, were cued up.
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That slender slip of a woman does almost all their farm work, herself?
Dorothy on a House Boat|Evelyn Raymond
She was a slender, pretty brunette, like her mother, but less beautiful.
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His "bit of luck" seemed to me slender enough grounds for his confidence that all would yet be well.
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In spinning, the simplest form of the spindle—a slender stick thrust through the center of a round wooden disk—is used.
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"You mustn't—you mustn't cry, dear Mrs. Walker," she sobbed, putting her arms about the slender old shoulders.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction|Various
British Dictionary definitions for slender
slender
/ (ˈslɛndə) /
adjective
of small width relative to length or height
(esp of a person's figure) slim and well-formed
small or inadequate in amount, size, etcslender resources
(of hopes, etc) having little foundation; feeble
very smalla slender margin
(of a sound) lacking volume
phonetics(now only in Irish phonology) relating to or denoting a close front vowel, such as i or e