slender

adj
/ˈslɛndə/UK/ˈslɛndɚ/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *sleydʰ-
  2. derived from *slindraz
  3. derived from slinder
  4. derived from esclendre
  5. inherited from slendre

Definitions

  1. Thin

    Thin; slim.

    • A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
    • She is very slender.
  2. 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.
  3. Palatalized.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. To attenuate.

      • Rolled-up sleeves bared her strong forearms, which slendered down when they came to the wrists and hands.
    2. 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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at slender. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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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

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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