slim
Slender; thinSlender; thin.: Slender in an attractive way.
» My uncle is slim, but my aunt is fat.
Mein Onkel ist schlank, aber meine Tante ist dick.
Мой дядя худой, а тётя — толстая.
Мій дядько худорлявий, а моя тітка гладка.
Meaning
7 sensesSlender; thin.
Slender in an attractive way.
Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.
being of delicate or slender build
(broadly)Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
Long and narrow.
Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
Very small, tiny.
I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.
Juries who will convict on the slimmest evidence.
small in quantity
(Northern England, Scotland)Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
A slimly-shod lad;
a slimly-made cart.
(South Africa, obsolete)Sly, crafty.
Examples
111 sentencesMy 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
Tom is very slim.
Том дуже худорлявий. — deniko
deTom ist sehr schlank. — wolfgangth
I'm trying to slim down.
Я намагаюся стати стрункішим. — deniko
There's a slim chance that'll work.
My chances of winning are slim.
ruМои шансы на победу невысоки. — Wezel
Translations
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Origin
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“badBorrowing 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, slimmestSynonyms
120 synonymsWord family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
Collocations
6 patterns- a slim chance
- slim chance
- slim chance that
- there's a slim
- only a slim
- is very slim