slight
IPA: sɫˈaɪt
noun
- The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
- (obsolete) Sleight.
- A surname from Middle English.
verb
- (transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
- (transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
- (transitive) To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.
- (intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
- (transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make even or level.
- (transitive) To throw heedlessly.
adjective
- Small.
- Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
- Not thorough; superficial.
- Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.
- (archaic or rare) Not far away in space or time.
- Of slender build.
- (regional) Even, smooth or level.
- (especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
- (obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
- (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality.
- (dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.
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Examples of "slight" in Sentences
- The effect of the law was slight.
- The effects of vertigo may be slight.
- Note slight muscular atrophy of the hands.
- It may be in slight remission at the moment.
- There is a slight wash of callus on the shell.
- A slight imbalance in the turbulences tilts the candle.
- The narcissist is constantly on the lookout for slights.
- A slight majority of the languages in the world are tonal.
- Iridescence slight and typically limited to the upperparts.
- It's not a slight against the trustworthiness of the site itself.
- They're reporting what they call slight but significant movement in his right arm and leg.
- Emphasis on the word slight." 13jm3211 on Twitter: "Eight of 11 in the QPR starting line up are this summer's transfers.
- Conan O'Brien is back at work on the Tonight Show and joking about a stunt accident that gave him what he called a slight concussion.
- Whilst here Cook was for a time confined to his cabin by what he describes as a slight cold, but Mr. Forster says was a severe attack of rheumatism.
- "In Greece there is two options, pain or default, or what I call a slight combination of the two, pain and restructuring with external support from your European partners and your friends in Washington," Buiter said.
- Morelon said that it had to move away from using raw milk in its cheeses due to what he called a slight, but nonetheless real, danger of pathogenic micro organisms in the cheese that had been linked to an alleged 2005 contamination of E coli 026.
- They had recommended to the Government what they termed the slight punishment of disqualification, by Act of Parliament, from engaging in civil service; but the Ministry and their supporters determined on the summary proceeding of prosecutions under existing law for treason, thinking that few cases would be necessary, -- and all agreed that these should be selected from Boston.
- Your expression, "and tends to depart in a slight degree," I think hardly grammatical; a _tendency_ to depart cannot very well be said to be in a slight degree; a _departure_ can, but a tendency must be either a _slight tendency_ or a _strong tendency_; the degree to which the departure may reach must depend on favourable or unfavourable causes in addition to the tendency itself.