SLENDER • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Slender

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/slˈɛndər/ Listen

adjective

Slender adj. (compar. slenderer; superl. slenderest)

1.

Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant. "A slender, choleric man." "She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore."

2.

Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution. "Mighty hearts are held in slender chains." "They have inferred much from slender premises." "The slender utterance of the consonants."

3.

Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence. "A slender degree of patience will enable him to enjoy both the humor and the pathos."

4.

Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance. "Frequent begging makes slender alms."

5.

Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet. "The good Ostorius often deigned To grace my slender table with his presence."

6.

(Phon.) Uttered with a thin tone; the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

See images of 'Slender'

Etymology of 'Slender'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Slender" Quotes from Famous Books

... which the former wife wore, are put upon the new bride's limbs: and she is fed, until they are filled up to the proper thickness. This is sometimes no easy matter, particularly if the former wife was fat, and the present should be of a slender form. The food used for this custom, worthy of barbarians, is a seed called drough; which is of an extraordinary fattening quality, and also famous for rendering the milk of nurses rich and abundant. With this seed, and their national dish 'cuscusu,' the bride ...

— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II • Francis Augustus Cox

... Morten, taking off his things. Then they fled into the kitchen, but the hired cook was in possession; at length they found an undisturbed haven in the bedroom. Ellen wound her arms round Pelle's neck and gazed at him in silence, quite lost in happiness and longing. And Pelle pressed the beloved, slender, girlish body against his own, and looked deep in her eyes, which were dark and shadowy as velvet, as they drank in the light in his. His heart swelled within him, and he felt that he was unspeakably fortunate—richer than any ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... to the window and laid his hand where the dove had been, pressing the slender shoulder and ...

— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs

... picture) With all its branches a slender tree casts The shine of darkness around poor crosses. The earth stretches out painfully black and broad. A small moon slips slowly out of space. And next to it strange, unapproachable, huge Airplanes hover heavenward! Sinners filled with longing look up, with ...

— The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein

... farthest days of his past and beings who had figured in or influenced his most remote existence—Rodolphe could not, whatever efforts he might make, recall with clearness after four days' separation, the features of that mistress who had nearly broken his life between her slender fingers. He could no longer recall the softness of the eyes by the light of which he had so often fallen asleep. He could no longer remember the notes of that voice whose anger and whose caressing utterances had alternately maddened him. A poet, who was a friend of his, and who had not seen ...

— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger

Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com