Meaning

2 senses

  1. The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.

    Geringschätzung, Kränkung, Herabschätzung

    a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

  2. (obsolete)Sleight.

Examples

288 sentences

  1. It seems I have a slight cold.

    Я, здається, трохи застудився. — deniko

    ruПохоже, я слегка простыл. — sharptoothed

    deAnscheinend habe ich eine leichte Erkältung. — riotlake

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  2. I have a slight fever.

    У мене невелика температура. — deniko

    ruУ меня лёгкий жар. — marafon

    deIch habe leichtes Fieber. — sigfrido

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  3. I don't have the slightest idea.

    Я не маю найменшої уяви. — deniko

    ruНе имею ни малейшего понятия. — marafon

    deIch habe nicht die leiseste Ahnung. — Sudajaengi

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  4. I have a slight headache today.

    Мені трохи болить сьогодні голова. — ascolto

    ruСегодня у меня немного болит голова. — Selena777

    deIch habe heute leichte Kopfschmerzen. — Hans_Adler

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  5. Tom speaks with a slight accent.

    Том говорить із легким акцентом. — deniko

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of slighting:

Origin

From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, sm

From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”).

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Forms

plural: slights
Singularslight
Pluralslights

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
neglectB2ignoringbelittlement
Close in meaning
  • a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval):rebuff

Antonyms

1 antonyms
respectB1

Word family

1 related words
Derivedslightsome

Collocations

12 patterns
  • had a slight
  • a slight fever
  • a slight headache
  • a slight cold
  • slight fever
  • slight headache
  • slight cold
  • have the slightest
  • the slightest idea
  • with a slight
  • in the slightest
  • slightest idea

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
slideB2sliderslideshowslightlyB1slimA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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