transcription, транскрипция: [ slaɪt ]
( slighter, slightest, slights, slighting, slighted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity.
Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...
We have a slight problem...
He’s not the slightest bit worried.
= small
ADJ : usu ADJ n
2.
A slight person has a fairly thin and delicate looking body.
She is smaller and slighter than Christie.
ADJ
• slight‧ly
...a slightly built man.
ADV : ADV -ed
3.
If you are slighted , someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
VERB : usu passive , feel V-ed
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Slight is also a noun.
It isn’t a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
4.
You use in the slightest to emphasize a negative statement.
That doesn’t interest me in the slightest...
PHRASE : with brd-neg [ emphasis ]