slight

Plural: slights

Noun

• a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
• The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
• Sleight.

Verb

Verb Forms: slighted, slighting, slights

• To treat someone with disregard; to insult or ignore.
• pay no attention to, disrespect
• To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
• To give lesser weight or importance to.
• To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.
• To act negligently or carelessly.
• To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
• To make even or level.
• To throw heedlessly.

Adjective

• Small in degree, amount, or importance; slender.
• (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
  • "there's slight chance that it will work"
  • "there's a slight chance it will work"

Adjective Satellite

• lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame"
  • "slight evidence"
• being of delicate or slender build; - Frank Norris
  • "watched her slight figure cross the street"

Adj

• Small.
• Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
• Small.
• Not thorough; superficial.
• Small.
• Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.
• Small.
• Not far away in space or time.
• Of slender build.
• Even, smooth or level.
• Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
• Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
• Bad, of poor quality.
• Slighting; treating with disdain.

Examples

• a slight (i.e. not convincing) argument
• a slight but graceful woman
• a slight effort
• a slight hint of cinnamon
• a slight pain
• A slight stone
• give it a slight kick
• He had only a SLIGHT chance of winning, but he played his ’Q’ for a massive comeback.
• in the slight future
• make a slight examination
• The sea was slight and calm
• To SLIGHT a valid word by challenging it is bad etiquette in Words With Friends.
• we made a slight mistake

Synonyms

cold-shoulder, flimsy, fragile, little, rebuff, slender, slim, svelte, tenuous, thin, asinine, ass, bad, balmy, barmy, base, bedaft, belittle, belittlement, belittling, below par, broken, bum, bung, cast, cheap, chintzy, chuck, chunk, contemn, contemptible, contemptuous, cook, crackpot, crapperific, crappo, crappy, craptabulous, craptacular, craptastic, crummy, daft, dash, dense, deprecative, derogative, derpy, despise, despising, dim-headed, dim-witted, disdainful, dismissive, disrespectful, dopey, downy, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, dump, duncical, even, fatuous, feck, flat, fling, foolish, for the birds, frictionless, frivolous, futile, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gaunt, gauvison, glassy, goofy, gracile, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, idiotic, idle, ignorable, ignoring, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, insipient, jerk, lanate, lank, launch, lean, leansome, level, like a fart in a windstorm, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lob, loony, lousy, low, low-grade, meager, mean, meaningless, minor, mookish, naive, neglect, negligible, nondescript, nothingburger, paltry, peck, peg, petty, picayune, picayunish, pick, piddly, pissant, pitch, pitiful, pointless, poor, precipitate, project, quoit, rangy, rinky-dink, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scornful, shitty, shoddy, shy, silken, silklike, silky, silly, simple, skew, sleek, slick, slight, slighting, sling, slinky, slow-witted, smooth, sneerful, sniffy, soft in the head, softheaded, sorry, sottish, stupid, subpar, substandard, swack, sylphlike, thick, thrill, throw, tin-pot, tiny, toss, traject, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unacceptable, unfit, unimportant, unsage, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsuitable, unweighty, unwise, vain, velutinous, velvety, warp, whang, whip, whop, willowy, wing, woeful, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, worthless, wretched

Antonyms

much, esteem, honor, respect, value

Related Words

SLIGHTLY

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