slim

Plural: slims

Verb

Verb Forms: slimmed, slimming, slims

To make or become slender; to reduce weight or amount.
take off weight
To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
To make slimmer; to reduce in size.

Adjective Satellite

being of delicate or slender build; - Frank Norris
- "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"
small in quantity
- "a slim chance of winning"

Adj

Slender; thin.
Slender in an attractive way.
Slender; thin.
Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
Slender; thin.
Long and narrow.
Slender; thin.
Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
Very small, tiny.
Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
Sly, crafty.

Noun

A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
A potato farl.
AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
Cocaine.
Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”)

Adjective

Slender and graceful; small or inadequate.

Examples

a slimly-made cart.
A slimly-shod lad;
He tried to SLIM down his tile rack by playing as many letters as possible.
Her hopes of winning were SLIM, but she still had one high-scoring tile left.
I only smoke slims.
I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.
Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).

Synonyms

lose weight, melt off, reduce, slender, slenderize, slight, slim down, svelte, thin, cunning, fine, flimsy, frood, infinitesimal, lithe, lousy, low-quality, marginal, shoddy, stalky, sticklike, tiny, virgate, willowy, wily

Antonyms

gain

Scrabble Score: 6

slim: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
slim: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slim: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

slim: valid Words With Friends Word