slender, slight, slim, svelte
(adjective) being of delicate or slender build; “she was slender as a willow shoot is slender”- Frank Norris; “a slim girl with straight blonde hair”; “watched her slight figure cross the street”
slender, slim
(adjective) small in quantity; “slender wages”; “a slim chance of winning”; “a small surplus”
reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
(verb) take off weight
Source: WordNet® 3.1
SLiM (plural SLiMs)
(biochemistry) Acronym of short linear motif.
• MILs, MLIS, MSIL, SMIL, mils, misl
Slim (plural Slims)
A surname.
A male given name.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Slim is the 27845th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 862 individuals. Slim is most common among null (61.48%) and White (26.45%) individuals.
• MILs, MLIS, MSIL, SMIL, mils, misl
slim (comparative slimmer, )
Slender, thin.
(of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
(by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
(of an object) Long and narrow.
(of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
(of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
(rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
(South Africa, obsolete in UK) Sly, crafty.
• (slender in an attractive way.): lithe, svelte, willowy; see also slender
• (clothing)
• (long and narrow): fine, stalky, sticklike, thin, virgate
• (reduced workforce)
• (tiny; of something abstract): infinitesimal, marginal; see also tiny
• (of questionable quality): flimsy, lousy, shoddy; see also low-quality
• (crafty): cunning, frood; see also wily
slim (plural slims)
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
(Ireland, regional) A potato farl.
(East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
(slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
slim (third-person singular simple present slims, present participle slimming, simple past and past participle slimmed)
(intransitive) To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
(transitive) To make slimmer; to reduce in size.
• MILs, MLIS, MSIL, SMIL, mils, misl
Source: Wiktionary
Slim, a. [Compar. Slimmer; superl. Slimmest.] Etym: [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been influenced by slender.]
1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse." Barrow.
3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree. Grose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
