SLENDER


Meaning of SLENDER in English

adj. (slenderer, slenderest)

1. a of small girth or breadth (a slender pillar). b gracefully thin (a slender waist).

2 relatively small or scanty; slight, meagre, inadequate (slender hopes; slender resources).

Phrases and idioms:

slender loris see LORIS.

Derivatives:

slenderly adv. slenderness n.

Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.