Slender: Definition and part of speech

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Slender

  1. superl. Uttered with a thin tone; — the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
  2. superl. Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
  3. superl. Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
  4. superl. Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
  5. superl. Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
  6. superl. Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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