An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SLIMMER
SLIM
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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
slimmer
comparative form of slim
Noun
slimmer (plural slimmers)
A person who is trying to become slim by dieting.
Anagrams
• limmers
Source: Wiktionary
SLIM
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
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