slender
slender is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
- superlative. Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
- superlative. Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
- superlative. Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
- superlative. Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
- superlative. Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
- adjective. being of delicate or slender build- Frank Norris
"she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"
"a slim girl with straight blonde hair"
- adjective. moving and bending with ease
- adjective. small in quantity
"slender wages"
"a slim chance of winning"
- adjective. having little width in proportion to the length or height
"a slender pole"
- adjective. very narrow
"a thin line across the page"
Synonyms
slight, slim, svelte, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple, sylphlike, thin
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slender:
Common word forms
slenderer, slenderly, slenderest, slenderise, slenderize, slenderness
Words from these letters
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