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ADJECTIVE slim COMPARATIVE slimmer SUPERLATIVE slimmest
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slim English

Meaning slim meaning

What does slim mean?
Definitions in simple English

slim Adjective

— When someone is slim, they are thin and not fat. She is so slim that she looks like a wooden stick.

slim

— adjective (= slender, slight) 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 (= slender) small in quantity slender wages a slim chance of winning a small surplus — verb (= reduce) take off weight

Synonyms slim synonyms

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

slim English » English

slender thin lean skinny svelte slight delicate slenderize lose weight slim down lissome small scrawny reduce narrow fine dainty willowy subtle nice melt off lithe graceful frail emaciated tall spare sly sleek rangy lanky lank gaunt emaciate become thin worn wither well-shaped well-proportioned well-disposed weak waspish unnerved unfattened ticklish tenuous tactful symmetrical subtile subjugable

Topics slim topics

What do people use slim to talk about?
States Big Thick

Thin person
States Big Thick

Thin thing

Conjugation slim conjugation

How do you conjugate slim?

slim · verb

Examples slim examples

How do I use slim in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Both young and old people desire slim figures.
She's blond and slim.
He isn't fat but slim.
Young girls' desire for slim figures is strong.
A man called Slim was killed in the accident.
Chances of promotion are slim in this firm.
She grew up to be a slim girl.
If you want to be slim, follow this diet.
My uncle is slim, but my aunt is fat.
He's tall and slim.
I thought chances of Tom not noticing what Mary was doing were pretty slim.
He was very tall and slim, with long arms and legs.
How does Tom manage to stay so slim?
The doctor wants Tom to slim down a little.
This colourful dress will suit you, with your slim figure, very well.
He was tall, slim and strong.
A man named Slim was killed in that accident.
She's tall and slim.
She's slim, but short.
She's slim and sexy.
I'm not as slim as my older sister.

Movie subtitles

I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond.
Keep an eye on them Slim. - All right.
Slim go get Benedict wagon and bring it to the entrance of the mine.
Slim Murphy?
What are the chances of getting you to do what he wants? - Slim.
Can't you fix it, Slim?
You got Slim watching on the outside.
Go with her, Slim.
Finish your supper, Slim.
Don't give it to him, Slim.
Keep them covered, Slim.
Pick up that sack, Slim.
Watch them, Slim.
Okay, Slim, we're pulling out.
You're tall and short, slim and stout.
Slim.
Our chances of getting out of this are slim, but it's up to us.
Yes, a very slim one.
You're so slim, I could kill you.
Get Slim up here with his high-powered rifle and telescope.
Hey, Slim?
I'm still the man that can slim you down, you hear me?
I'm gonna get that wallet, Slim.
I'd rather you wouldn't call me Slim.
Don't you think so, Slim?
Come on, Slim.
Go ahead, Slim.
Very tall! Very slim! A dark complexion.
There's one slim chance I can get even for Tiny.
So slim and capable.
Yeah, I know a lot about you, Slim.
I'm sorry, Slim.
Good morning, Slim.

News and current affairs

Countering narco-gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.
If that dominance continues through increasingly powerful networking technologies, the chances of Asia creating a distinct unity of its own are slim.
But here, too, the potential benefits are slim.
But the right's slim manifesto includes its own unaffordable promises, such as cuts in property taxes and increases in low-level pensions.
We all went looting the local shops; I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16-year-old self took from a bookshop.
But the prospects of that happening are slim, because such an appeal would lack the emotional pull of the desire to help immediate victims.
They have their hands full just standing up for their own rights in Hong Kong, and the chance that they will succeed appears to be slim.
The Morsi government seemed incapable of understanding that a slim electoral majority is not enough, especially nowadays.
After the battle of the Marne (September 1914) and the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, some of Wilhelm's advisers realized that the chances for a military victory were slim, hence the need for a negotiated peace.
Demographers portray a country in 2050 in which non-Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority.
Its chances of succeeding are slim.
The slim majority, and the clear differences between the two political camps, will assure a robust two-party system in the future.
Once public unease towards Turkey can find focus in a referendum on the country's potential EU membership, the chances for it joining look fairly slim.
Yet the chances that it will bring real, as opposed to merely rhetorical, progress toward reconciliation remain slim.
Tolerance for failure was slim in both initiatives, so they tended to rely on the previous generation of scientific insight, because the resulting technology was more trustworthy.
The chance of seeing exchange rates near the IMF values any time soon is slim.
Alas, at this time of economic crisis, growing nationalism, and inward-looking populism, the chances of a Muslim country becoming a member of the EU are slim, to say the least.
Only a slim provision that made joint inspections with the IAEA voluntary made it into the final agreement.
I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16-year-old self took from a bookshop.
Sadly, the chances that the LDP will reform, or that the DPJ will evolve into a responsible party of government in the foreseeable future, are slim.
State monopolies are sold to friends who then become multibillionaires, like Mexico's Carlos Slim.
The chances of this are slim.
Unless Obama reaches an uneasy understanding with Russia - which would require revising post-Cold War strategic agreements - the chances of imposing a tight sanctions regime on Iran are slim.
Indeed, demographers predict that in 2050 non-Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority of US residents.

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