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(adj)
Slender; thin.
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Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Small in size.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Alternative spelling of lissom. [Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.]
Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.
Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
Characterised or marked by litheness; pliant, limber, nimble, lissom.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
Minor; small in amount
(of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.
(informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
(especially of a woman) Fairly short and of slim build.
(n)
Something that thins or thins out (another thing).
Narrowing gradually towards a point.
Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
(chiefly of resources, such as food) Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
(v)
(transitive) To damn or curse.
(informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
(euphemistic) Damn.
(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
(education) Initialism of beginning of year.
(colloquial) A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
Abbreviation of golliwog:.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.
Not bright or colorful.
(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(of a sound or voice) High and thin in tone.
A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.
A gee-gee, a horse.
(colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.
(electronics) (of a circuit, electronic, etc.) Made with thin films deposited on a ceramic or glass substrate.
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Initialism of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
(N)
an Australian online news outlet founded in 1999.
Characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.
Thin, malnourished, and weak.
(informal, derogatory) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
Thin, muscular and flexible.
Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
Insubstantial.
Senses referring to subjective quality.
Somewhat cylindrical and slender like a pencil; also, tall and thin.
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
(transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
Slender and long of limb; lanky.
(of a person) Tall, slender and graceful.
Somewhat slender.
A surname.
Somewhat slim.
Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
Somewhat thin.
Synonym of slimline.
(also figuratively) Lean, slender, thin.
Alternative form of slimsy. [(US, colloquial, dated) flimsy; frail]
(dated) Having a slender, athletic body; lithe.
(US, colloquial, dated) flimsy; frail
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
Extremely thin, like a twig.
Having a thin abdomen, especially when sickly or hungry.
(of a person) Thin and angular.
A toy in the form of a loose metal (originally) or plastic spring that can be made to "walk" down stairs as its coils separate and close up.
light and thin
An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.
(informal) Somewhat skinny.
(simile, rare) Very thin, unhealthily thin.
Thin but having large or pronounced buttocks and thighs.
Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
Senses relating to tangible things.
With little flesh; skinny, thin.
(informal) Very skinny.
lithe and slimy or slithery.
Like or resembling slime; slimy
Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
Anything long and slender, like a shoot.
(simile) Extremely thin.
Covered in spines or thorns.
Somewhat sleek.
(UK, dialect) Shrivelled; lean, lank.
A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
Having a tall, thin body.
(idiomatic) Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.
Lean or thin, scrawny.