Meaning

7 senses
  1. Slender; thin.

    Slender in an attractive way.

    Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.

    being of delicate or slender build

  2. (broadly)Designed to make the wearer appear slim.

  3. Long and narrow.

  4. Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.

  5. Very small, tiny.

    I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.

    Juries who will convict on the slimmest evidence.

    small in quantity

  6. (Northern England, Scotland)Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.

    A slimly-shod lad;

    a slimly-made cart.

  7. (South Africa, obsolete)Sly, crafty.

Examples

111 sentences
  1. My uncle is slim, but my aunt is fat.

    Мій дядько худорлявий, а моя тітка гладка. — deniko

    ruМой дядя худой, а тётя — толстая. — sharptoothed

    deMein Onkel ist schlank, aber meine Tante ist dick. — MUIRIEL

  2. Tom is very slim.

    Том дуже худорлявий. — deniko

    deTom ist sehr schlank. — wolfgangth

  3. I'm trying to slim down.

    Я намагаюся стати стрункішим. — deniko

  4. There's a slim chance that'll work.

  5. My chances of winning are slim.

    ruМои шансы на победу невысоки. — Wezel

Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Origin

Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad

Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.

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Forms

slimmer, slimmest
Comparativeslimmer Lesson
Superlativeslimmest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

120 synonyms

Word family

17 related words

Collocations

6 patterns
  • a slim chance
  • slim chance
  • slim chance that
  • there's a slim
  • only a slim
  • is very slim

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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