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[ adjective ] being of delicate or slender build
Examples "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" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)But there surely can be no_doubt about the slender southpaw belonging with the all_time great lefthanders in the game 's history . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)When Papa 's slender fingers removed the spectacles , there were red indentations on the bridge of the strong nose . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)The door was answered by a slender man in his sixties - straight_backed , somewhat clerical in manner , wearing rimless glasses . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)No fold could be accidental , each turn of the drapery had to serve organically , to cover the Madonna 's slender legs and feet so that they would give substantive support to Christ 's body , to intensify her inner turmoil . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] very narrow
Synonyms Examples "a thin line across the page" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Styles run the gamut from slender and tapered with elongated toes to a newer squared toe shape . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)His Mary would be slender of limb and delicate of proportion , yet she must hold this full-grown man as securely and convincingly as she would a child . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)He saw the Starbird as she lay , her slender mast up and gently turning , its point describing constant languid circles against a cumulus sky . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having little width in proportion to the length or height
Examples "a slender pole" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] small in quantity
Synonyms Examples "slender wages" "a slim chance of winning" "a small surplus" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family , let_alone educate them in a town without even a school . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
Used in print (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)They were further stripped of old_wives'_tales by seeing the slender , lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength - and with not one bulging muscle . Related terms |
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