slender
adjEtymology
From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.
- derived from *sleydʰ-✻
- derived from *slindraz✻
- derived from slinder
- derived from esclendre
- inherited from slendre
Definitions
Thin
Thin; slim.
- A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
- She is very slender.
Meagre
Meagre; deficient.
- Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
- The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender.
- The slender service between Ellesmere Port and Helsby has been added, too.
Palatalized.
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To attenuate.
- Rolled-up sleeves bared her strong forearms, which slendered down when they came to the wrists and hands.
A simple country gentleman.
- […] the fantastic pilgrimages imposed on the "Cousin Slenders" of the world by their more facetious comrades […]
- A walk through the pleasant little town of Cirencester upon a market day will show Slenders and Simples by the dozen.
The neighborhood
- synonymsvelte
- synonymwillowy
- synonymscarce
- synonymsparse
- synonyminadequate
- synonymgaunt
- synonymgracile
- synonymlank
- synonymlean
- synonymleansome
- synonymlithesome
- synonymlissome
- antonymbroadantonym(s) of “palatalized”
- antonymheavy
- antonymlarge
- antonymobese
- antonymoverweight
- antonymstrapping
- neighborcadaverous
- neighborscrawny
- neighborthin person
- neighborphysique
- neighborthin
- neighborectomorphic
- neighborflat-chested
Derived
red slender loris, slender-billed curlew, slender-billed greenfinch, slender-billed gull, slender-bodied, slender cypress pine, slender-horned gazelle, slenderish, slenderization, slenderize, slender loris, slenderly, Slender Man, slender moa, slenderness, slender poison, slender reed, slender seahorse, slender sea lettuce, slender sedge, slender shrew, slender skimmer, slender suckerfish, Slender West Lake, unslender
Vish — recursive loop
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A definitional loop anchored at slender. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at slender
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