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slight English

Meaning slight meaning

What does slight mean?
Definitions in simple English

slight Adjective

— A slight increase, difference, etc. is a small change. This year's 5.6% level is a slight increase from last year's 5.4%. Don't worry about me. It's just a slight pain I don't have the slightest idea what she meant. — If someone is slight, they are thin. Out stepped a slight, middle-aged woman who smiled kindly.

slight Verb

— If you slight someone, you treat them as if they were not important. Ever since that time, he's been slighted by his fellow workers.

slight Noun

— A slight is when you are not polite to someone. Has she forgiven him for his slight?

slight

— noun (= rebuff) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) — verb (= cold-shoulder) pay no attention to, disrespect She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance — adjective (= little) (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 — adjective (= slender, slim) 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 — adjective (= fragile, tenuous, thin) lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame" slight evidence a tenuous argument a thin plot

Synonyms slight synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as slight?

slight English » English

disregard neglect small little insult disdain despise trifling thin insignificant scorn contempt slim light ignore slender look down upon trivial minor fragile petty disrespect delicate affront unimportant tiny frail disparage belittle weak tenuous snub gentle flimsy feeble subtle shun paltry humiliate faint eschew easy contemn avoid alienate underestimate treat with contempt svelte negligible mild

Topics slight topics

What do people use slight to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Admire someone

Despise someone
States Quantity Plural

Few, little
States Big Thick

Thin thing
States Big Thick

Thin person

  • What words describe someone who is thin?
    thin slight
Grammar General words Do

Change something
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Facial expression
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Laugh
Physical actions Posture

Bow

Conjugation slight conjugation

How do you conjugate slight?

slight · verb

Examples slight examples

How do I use slight in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We need to make a slight detour.
I had a slight accident while trekking in Nepal.
We had a slight difference of opinion.
I have a slight fever.
It's only a slight cold.
I have a slight headache today.
I have a slight fever today.
There's a slight possibility of a recurrence.
I had a slight scruple about doing that kind of thing.
I have had a slight fever since this morning.
I have a slight cold.
I have a slight headache.
Would you mind if I shut the window? I have a slight cold.
He had a slight edge on his opponent.
The Chinese automotive import market shows signs of slight growth.
Note that we work with a slight generalization of the original definition.
Slight inattention can cause a great disaster.
I have a sore throat and a slight fever.
The economy is in a slight depression.
I have a slight headache now.

Movie subtitles

That is, with the exception of a slight change.
I see that we have come here with a slight misunderstanding. and we'll correct that, too, won't we, huh?
Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for the slight delay.
And if a doctor thinks a slight operation is necessary. there's no need to be afraid, is there?
There's going to be a slight interruption.
I know I have a mother fixation, but it's slight.
My dear friends, I am so sorry, I must be excused. but I have a slight touch of laryngitis.
There's a slight misunderstanding here.
A slight blackout. Come along, my good man.
You've made a slight blunder.
A slight cerebral contusion.
There's the special train. In 15 minutes, the heart of England's going to have slight palpitations.
Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight symptom of the divine passion?
There were no marks on the bodies. except a slight discoloration or bruise at the base of the brain.
There seems to be a slight misunderstanding here.
Yes, a slight error.
No, it's very slight, really.
Fixing these slight problem areas was accomplished by individuals who carefully retouched the film, frame by frame, with a very small brush and opaque dye.
We are happy to say, however, that the shot fired. merely caused a slight flesh wound in Monsieur Ropa's shoulder. and he has been able to return home.
We had a slight accident.
I'm afraid there's been a slight mistake.
I hope your injury will be slight.
There are some slight details.
They're at a slight disadvantage at the moment.
Peter is his way into, maybe, just one slight advantage of making that happen and being able to get rid of it.
Or a slight illness.
He's feeling indisposed. A slight blackout.
I gathered from what I overheard, sir. that we're in a slight miasma, sir.
A slight dispute.
His bride just dropped him at the gatehouse after a slight explosion.
I'm terribly sorry to have kept you waiting but there's been a slight hitch in the proceedings.
Just as I thought. A slight touch of monetary complications with bucolic semi-lunar contraptions of the flying trapezes.

News and current affairs

There is probably some slight truth - and also a certain degree of irony - to this argument.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say there are more possible moves in a chess game than atoms in a universe.
The risk may be slight, but if the consequences should it materialize are great enough, the expected cost of disaster may be sufficient to warrant defensive measures.
Even a slight improvement in Ukraine's energy efficiency would contribute more to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions than the vast sums currently being spent to develop renewable energy sources.
Freedom House, a non-governmental organization, listed 86 free countries at the beginning of the Bush years, and a slight increase to 89 by the end of his term.
A slight devaluation would solve any remaining problem with export demand.
Since then, Portugal has increased exports cumulatively by more than one-quarter, so that, despite a slight increase in imports since 2007, it runs a trade surplus.
United Russia, on the other hand, based its campaign on the progress made during President Putin's tenure: notable economic growth and slight improvement in people's living standards.
And, with fewer than a thousand French citizens still living in Mali, even its pragmatic interest is relatively slight.
An alternative minimum tax was established, along with a slight increase in gasoline taxes, but both were so watered down that they barely add up to anything.
This year's output growth has been disappointing, and the International Monetary Fund expects only a slight improvement in 2015.
This bizarre transfer of office but not power - perhaps a slight improvement on state governors in the American south who used to hand their offices to their wives when their term-limits expired - is Putin's scenario.
There is hope, however slight, that, unlike Putin, Medvedev may mean what he says.
But, by raising the consumption share of its GDP, China will also absorb much of its surplus saving. That could bring its current account into balance - or even into slight deficit - by 2015.
In the US, despite a slight improvement, uncertainty lingers.
With his traditional sense of humor, Lula dismissed the slight.
In the first quarter of last year, Greece actually experienced a slight uptick in growth and a small decline in unemployment.
Doing so might have slight effects on mood or memory function or impair speech control.
The outcome may reflect the economy's slight improvement at election time (as happened when Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Republican Alf Landon in 1936, despite the continuing Great Depression).
It is shocking, and worrisome, that public financing remains slight, because these technologies' success could translate into literally trillions of dollars of economic output.
Their differences are slight.
The fact is that a weaker dollar resulting from lower interest rates gives the US a slight competitive advantage in trade.

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