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slight

English

  1. 🔊 being of delicate or slender build
    “she was slender as a willow shoot is slender”
  2. 🔊 (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree
    “little rain fell in May”
  3. 🔊 lacking substance or significance
    “slight evidence”
  4. 🔊 a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
  5. 🔊 pay no attention to, disrespect
    “She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance”

Similar words

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