slight
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
slight/slʌɪt/
▶adjective
- 1 small in degree; inconsiderable.
■ not profound or substantial.
- 2 not sturdy and strongly built.
- 1 insult (someone) by treating them without proper respect or attention.
- 2 archaic raze or destroy (a fortification).
– derivatives
slighting adjective,
slightingly adverb,
slightish adjective,
slightness noun.
slighting adjective,
slightingly adverb,
slightish adjective,
slightness noun.
– origin ME: from ON sléttr (adj.) ‘smooth’ (an early sense in English), slétta (v.), of Gmc origin.
'slight' also found in these Oxford entries:
agogic
- backspace
- bit
- blush
- breath
- brush
- camber
- cast
- chaos theory
- crackle
- dent
- dimple
- discomfort
- dribble
- dwell
- eggshell
- eminence
- entasis
- faint
- five o'clock shadow
- fold
- glow
- haemophilia
- haze
- hint
- imperceptible
- inkling
- jitter
- jog
- kiss
- mound
- niggle
- nod
- passing
- peep
- perceptible
- phut
- pique
- quibble
- quiver
- ray
- reduplicate
- retouch
- rick
- run-out
- scratch
- sensitive
- serif
- shade
- shading
