slender
Adjective Satellite
- being of delicate or slender build; - Frank Norris
- "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"
- very narrow
- having little width in proportion to the length or height
- "a slender pole"
- small in quantity
- "slender wages"
- moving and bending with ease
Adj
- Thin; slim.
- meagre; deficient
- Palatalized.
Adjective
- Gracefully thin; limited in amount or extent.
Examples
- A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
- Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
- He had only a SLENDER chance of winning, but his final word secured the victory.
- She is very slender.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.
Synonyms
lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, slight, slim, supple, svelte, sylphlike, thin, gaunt, gracile, inadequate, insufficient, lank, lean, leansome, rangy, scarce, sleek, slender, slinky, sparse, swack, willowy
Scrabble Score: 8
slender: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordslender: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slender: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary