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Slight   /slaɪt/   Listen
adjective
Slight  adj.  (compar. slighter; superl. slightest)  
1.
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. "At one slight bound." "Slight is the subject, but not so the praise." "Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds."
2.
Not stout or heavy; slender. "His own figure, which was formerly so slight."
3.
Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.


noun
Slight  n.  Sleight.


Slight  n.  The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
Synonyms: Neglect; disregard; inattention; contempt; disdain; scorn; disgrace; indignity; disparagement.


verb
Slight  v. t.  
1.
To overthrow; to demolish. (Obs.)
2.
To make even or level. (Obs.)
3.
To throw heedlessly. (Obs.) "The rogue slighted me into the river."


Slight  v. t.  (past & past part. slighted; pres. part. slighting)  To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands. "The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies."
To slight off, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to remove. (R.) To slight over, to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme. "They will but slight it over."
Synonyms: To neglect; disregard; disdain; scorn. Slight, Neglect. To slight is stronger than to neglect. We may neglect a duty or person from inconsiderateness, or from being over-occupied in other concerns. To slight is always a positive and intentional act, resulting from feelings of dislike or contempt. We ought to put a kind construction on what appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no longer. "Beware... lest the like befall... If they transgress and slight that sole command." "This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste."


adverb
Slight  adv.  Slightly. (Obs. or Poetic) "Think not so slight of glory."





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"Slight" Quotes from Famous Books



... Her slight shrug conceded the point. "I never argue! And if you start on that subject—I'm nowhere! You can save it all up for the Pater. He's ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... looks, and dressed anyhow; she could not bear to have young men courting her, and yet in books she only read the pages which treated of love; she did not care to be liked, did not like caresses, but never forgot a caress, just as she never forgot a slight; she was afraid of death and killed herself! She used to say sometimes, 'Such a one as I want I shall never meet ... and no other will I have!' 'Well, but if you meet him?' Anna would ask. 'If I meet him ... I will capture ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev
... human nature, it is the lesson of history, that real wrongs, unredressed, grow into preposterous demands. Men are much like nature in action; a little disturbance of atmospheric equilibrium becomes a cyclone, a slight break in the levee a ...
— Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner • David Widger
... not "spik Spanish," and accepts his offices. In some way the Peruvian has secured the confidence and goodwill of my friend in a very brief acquaintance. He is decidedly agreeable, but his slight knowledge of English puts him ...
— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins
... have been a great comfort to me. I have been in my chamber, with a slight attack of illness, for two or three weeks, and I received them one morning. I could not have had kinder or more entertaining visitors, and I was sorry when, after two or three days, I had to say Good-bye to them. They are ...
— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various


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