slight

slight is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, adverb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sleight. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Sleight.
2. transitive verb. To overthrow; to demolish.
3. transitive verb. To make even or level.
4. transitive verb. To throw heedlessly.
5. superlative. 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.
6. superlative. Not stout or heavy; slender.
7. superlative. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
8. transitive verb. To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
9. noun. The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
10. adverb. Slightly.
11. noun. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

    Synonyms: rebuff

12. verb. pay no attention to, disrespect

    "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"

13. 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"

    Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte

14. adjective. (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"

    Synonyms: little

15. adjective. lacking substance or significance; a fragile claim to fame"

    "slight evidence"

    "a tenuous argument"

    Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin

Synonyms

rebuff, slender, slim, svelte, little, flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slight:

lights

Common word forms

slights, slighted, slighten, slighter, slightly, slightest, slighting, slightness

Words from these letters

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