Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. slender, slight, slim, svelte(adj)

   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"

2. slender, thin(adj)

   very narrow

   "a thin line across the page"

3. slender(adj)

   having little width in proportion to the length or height

   "a slender pole"

4. slender, slim(adj)

   small in quantity

   "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

5. lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike(adj)

   moving and bending with ease

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. slender(Adjective)

   Thin; slim.

   A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.

2. slender(Adjective)

   palatalized

Origin: From slendre, sclendre, from esclendre, of origin, from slinder, from slindraz, from sleidh-. Cognate with Schlenderling, schlendern, slidderen, slinderen, slindern. More at slide, slither.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Slender

   small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant

2. Slender

   weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution

3. Slender

   moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence

4. Slender

   small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance

5. Slender

   spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet

6. Slender

   uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i

Origin: [OE. slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen, slidderen, to creep; perh. akin to E. slide.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Slender

   slen′dėr, adj. thin or narrow: feeble: inconsiderable: simple: meagre, inadequate, poorly furnished.—adv. Slen′derly.—n. Slen′derness. [Old Dut. slinder, thin, slinderen, to drag; cf. Ger. schlendern, to saunter.]

Anagrams for slender »

1. lenders

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of slender in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of slender in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Thomas Jefferson:

   Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

2. George Washington:

   A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

3. C. G. Jung:

   Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

4. Seungsoo Hahn:

   Avogadro talked to me about a mysterious number. The number takes us to a wonderland, where a tubby atom looks like a slender one, molecules are dancing at all times, and ions with extra electrons show off their body.

5. Jean Lorrain:

   Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness ...

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