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slight

UK/slaɪt/ US/slɑjt/ common
adjective (3) noun (1) verb (1)

adjective

1.

having little substance or significance

  • “a flimsy excuse”
  • “slight evidence”
  • “a tenuous argument”
  • “a thin plot”
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2.

almost no or (with `a'') at least some; very little

  • “there”
  • “;”
  • “s a slight chance it will work”
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3.

being of delicate or slender build

  • “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”
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noun

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verb

1.

pay no attention to, disrespect

  • “She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance”
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Origin

From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”).

Phrases

  • put a slight on
  • put a slight upon

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