Synonyms of the word slight


SLIGHTCOLD-SHOULDER - DISCOUNT - DISCOURTESY - DISMISS - DISREGARD - FLIMSY - IGNORE - LEAN - LITTLE - OFFENCE - OFFENSE - REBUFF - SLENDER - SLIM - SVELTE - TENUOUS - THIN - WEAK

slight

  • adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
  • adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
  • adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
  • adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
  • adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
  • v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
  • v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
  • v. To act negligently or carelessly.
  • v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
  • v. To make even or level.
  • v. To throw heedlessly.
  • n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
  • n. (obsolete) Sleight.

cold-shoulder

  • v. To disrespect someone, especially by ignoring them.

discount

  • v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
  • v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
  • v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • v. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
  • v. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount.
  • n. A reduction in price.
  • n. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment…
  • n. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
  • adj. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

discourtesy

  • n. Lack of courtesy; rudeness.
  • n. A rude act.

dismiss

  • v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
  • v. (transitive) To order to leave.
  • v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
  • v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
  • v. To send or put away.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

disregard

  • n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
  • v. To ignore; misregard.

flimsy

  • adj. Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
  • n. Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
  • n. (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.

ignore

  • v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
  • v. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
  • v. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

lean

  • v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  • v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
  • v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
  • v. To hang outwards.
  • v. To press against.
  • n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
  • adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
  • adj. (of meat) having little fat.
  • adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  • adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  • adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
  • adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
  • v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
  • v. To conceal.
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

little

  • adj. Small in size.
  • adj. Insignificant, trivial.
  • adj. Very young.
  • adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
  • adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
  • adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
  • adj. Short in duration; brief.
  • adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
  • adv. Not much.
  • adv. Not at all.

offence

  • n. British spelling standard spelling of offense.

offense

  • n. The act of offending.
  • n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
  • n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted…
  • n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so;…

rebuff

  • n. A sudden resistance or refusal.
  • n. Repercussion, or beating back.
  • v. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
  • v. To buff again.

slender

  • adj. Thin; slim.
  • adj. (figuratively) meagre; deficient.
  • adj. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

slim

  • adj. Slender, thin.
  • adj. (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
  • adj. (rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
  • adj. (South Africa) Sly, crafty.
  • n. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
  • n. (East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
  • v. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

svelte

  • adj. Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
  • adj. Refined, delicate.

tenuous

  • adj. Thin in substance or consistency.
  • adj. insubstantial.

thin

  • adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  • adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  • adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  • adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
  • adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
  • adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
  • adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
  • n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
  • n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
  • v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
  • v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
  • v. To dilute.
  • v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
  • adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

weak

  • adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
  • adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
  • adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
  • adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
  • adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
  • adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
  • adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
  • adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
  • adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
  • adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
  • adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
  • adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
  • adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
  • adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.

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