[syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slight \Slight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slighted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slighting.]
To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to
make light of; as, to slight the divine commands. --Milton.
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The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies.
--Cowper.
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To slight off, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to
remove. [R.] -- To slight over, to run over in haste; to
perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight
over a theme. "They will but slight it over." --Bacon.
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Syn: To neglect; disregard; disdain; scorn.
Usage: Slight, Neglect. To slight is stronger than to
neglect. We may neglect a duty or person from
inconsiderateness, or from being over-occupied in
other concerns. To slight is always a positive and
intentional act, resulting from feelings of dislike or
contempt. We ought to put a kind construction on what
appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he
slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no
longer.
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Beware . . . lest the like befall . . .
If they transgress and slight that sole command.
--Milton.
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This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace,
Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slight \Slight\, v. t. [Cf. D. slechten to level, to demolish.]
1. To overthrow; to demolish. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
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2. To make even or level. [Obs.] --Hexham.
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3. To throw heedlessly. [Obs.]
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The rogue slighted me into the river. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slight \Slight\, a. [Compar. Slighter; superl. Slightest.]
[OE. sli?t, sleght, probably from OD. slicht, slecht, simple,
plain, D. slecht; akin to OFries. sliucht, G. schlecht,
schlicht, OHG. sleht smooth, simple, Icel. sl?ttr smooth, Sw.
sl[aum]t, Goth. sla['i]hts; or uncertain origin.]
1. Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable;
unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; --
applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight
(i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable)
structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight
(i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not
thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain,
and the like. "At one slight bound." --Milton.
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Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.
--Pope.
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Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.
--Locke.
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2. Not stout or heavy; slender.
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His own figure, which was formerly so slight. --Sir
W. Scott.
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3. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect. --Hudibras.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slight \Slight\, n.
Sleight. --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slight \Slight\, n.
The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree
of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
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Syn: Neglect; disregard; inattention; contempt; disdain;
scorn; disgrace; indignity; disparagement.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slight \Slight\, adv.
Slightly. [Obs. or Poetic]
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Think not so slight of glory. --Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
slight
adj 1: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or
degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least
some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little
thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little
money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance
that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will
work" [syn: little(a), slight] [ant: much(a)]
2: lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a
tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"
[syn: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin]
3: 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" [syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte]
n 1: a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of
anger or disapproval) [syn: rebuff, slight]
v 1: pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her
ex-fiance" [syn: slight, cold-shoulder]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
361 Moby Thesaurus words for "slight":
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adulterated, affront, airy,
ankle-deep, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere,
bantam, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary,
belittle, blink, blink at, boyish, breakable, bring down,
bring into discredit, bring low, brittle, carefully ignore,
catchpenny, cheap-jack, cobwebby, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder,
coldness, connive at, contemn, cramped, crumbly, cry down, culpa,
culpable negligence, cursory, cut, cut a corner, cut corners,
cut dead, cut direct, dainty, debase, decry, default, degrade,
delicate, delicately weak, delinquency, depreciate, depthless,
dereliction, deride, derogate from, despise, detract from,
diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminish, diminutive, dinky,
disapprove of, disconformity, discount, discredit, disdain,
disgrace, dismiss, disparage, disregard, disrespect, dodge,
dwarfed, dwarfish, effeminate, empty, epidermal, ethereal,
exiguous, fail, failure, fat, fatuous, feeble, fine, fine-drawn,
finespun, flimsy, flout, foolish, forget, fragile, frail,
frangible, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, frugal, fudge,
futile, gaseous, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, give no heed,
give the go-by, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, half-pint,
hear nothing, hold in contempt, hold in derision, humiliation,
idle, ignore, ill-treatment, impoverished, inadequate,
inadvertence, inadvertency, inane, inattention, inconsequential,
indifference, indignity, infinitesimal, inobservance, insecure,
insignificant, insubstantial, insult, jejune, jerry, jerry-built,
knee-deep, knee-high, knock, laches, lacy, laissez-faire, lapse,
laugh at, laugh to scorn, laxity, laxness, lean, let pass, light,
lightweight, limited, little, look right through, looseness,
make light of, make little of, meager, mean, miniature, minimize,
minor, minute, miserly, miss, misty, mortify, namby-pamby, narrow,
neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, negligible, niggardly,
nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity,
nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance,
nonperformance, nonrestriction, not attend, not deep, not heed,
not listen, not notice, nugacious, off, offend, omission, omit,
on the surface, one-horse, otiose, outrage, outside, overlook,
overlooking, overpass, oversight, paltry, papery, parsimonious,
pass by, pass over, pass over lightly, pass up, pasteboardy,
pay no attention, pay no mind, perceptible, permissiveness, petite,
piddling, pindling, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-sized, poky,
pooh-pooh, poor, poor stewardship, precarious, procrastination,
puny, put down, rare, rarefied, rebuff, reedy,
reflect discredit upon, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to recognize,
remissness, repulse, rickety, run down, scamp, scant, scanty,
scoff, scoff at, scorn, scout, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy,
see nothing, set at defiance, shallow, shallow-rooted, shattery,
shoal, short, silly, sissified, skim, skim over, skim the surface,
skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, skip, skip over, slackness, sleazy,
slender, slenderish, slight over, slight-made, slim, slimmish,
slinky, slubber over, slur, slur over, small, smallish, sneer,
sniff, snort, snub, spare, sparing, speak ill of, spurn, spurning,
starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted,
submit to indignity, subsistence, subtile, subtle, superficial,
surface, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, the cold shoulder,
the go-by, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, think little of,
thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tiny, touch upon,
touch upon lightly, trace, treat with contempt, trifling, trite,
trivial, twiggy, two-by-four, uncompact, uncompressed, unlikely,
unnourishing, unnutritious, unobservance, unprofound,
unrigorousness, unstable, unsubstantial, vacuous, vague, vain,
vapid, vaporous, vest-pocket, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down,
watery, weak, wee, willowy, windy, wink at, wiredrawn, wispy,
womanish