adjective. undefined

adjective. Having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin.

adjective. Thin and delicate in build; gracefully slim.

adjective. Small in amount or extent; meager.

Small in width or diameter as compared with the length; slim; thin: as, a slender stem or stalk; a slender waist.

In zoology, gracile; tenuous; attenuated: specifically noting various animals and some parts of animals.

Weak; feeble; slight; lacking body or strength: as, a slender frame or constitution; slender hopes; slender comfort.

Meager; small; scant; inadequate: as, slender means; slender alms.

Moderate; inconsiderable; trivial.

Not amply supplied.

In phonography, the opposite of broad or open. Thus, ē and ī are slender vowels.

Synonyms Fragile, flimsy, frail.

Scanty, sparing, lean.

adjective. Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim.

adjective. Weak; feeble; not strong; slight.

adjective. Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight.

adjective. Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful.

adjective. Spare; abstemious; frugal.

adjective. Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad.

adjective. Thin; slim.

adjective. palatalized

adjective. small in quantity

adjective. very narrow

adjective. being of delicate or slender build

adjective. having little width in proportion to the length or height

adjective. moving and bending with ease

"Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels."

obese  

meager  scanty  slender column  slender fasciculi of burdach  slender foxtail  

graceful  lean  little  narrow  small  

Blender  Fender  Spender  bender  blender  

brown  graceful  lithe  slim  tall  

Junoesque  Lenten  Spartan  abstemious  abstemious