slight

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Minor; small in amount
2. Minor; small in amount
3. Minor; small in amount
4. (archaic, rare) Minor; small in amount
5. Of slender build.
6. (regional) Even, smooth or level.
7. (especially) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
8. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
9. (obsolete, regional) Bad, of poor quality.
10. (dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.

Verb

1. (transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
2. (transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.
3. (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.
4. (intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly.
5. (transitive) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To make even or level.
7. (transitive) To throw heedlessly.

Noun

1. The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
2. (obsolete) Sleight.

Conceptos

insignificante

leve

ligero

pequeño

escaso

delgado

delicado

desaire

sin

agravio

escurrido

estilizado

injuriar

insustancial

intrascendente

menosprecio

poco importante

sin importancia

bajo

fåtalig

despreciar

desprecio

esbelto

feo

fino

frágil

poco

Opuesto a

respect, value, esteem, honor

Sinónimos

disregard

neglect

small

little

insult

despise

disdain

trifling

thin

insignificant

contempt

scorn

light

ignore

slim

look down upon

slender

minor

trivial

fragile

affront

petty

disrespect

delicate

unimportant

tiny

frail

belittle

disparage

weak

gentle

tenuous

flimsy

snub

feeble

contemn

avoid

humiliate

subtle

eschew

easy

alienate

faint

paltry

shun

mild

underestimate

negligible

svelte

hold in contempt

Traducciones

geringfügig

leggero

affront

scarso

Geringfügigkeit

unbedeutend

léger

ελαφρός

Kränkung

Verachtung

ασήμαντος

schwach

dünn

unwichtig

gering

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/slaɪt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: slight

Heredado de inglés antiguo: sliht

Cognado con inglés: slick

Cognado con escocés: slicht

Cognado con frisón occidental: sljocht

Cognado con neerlandés: slecht

Cognado con bajo alemán: slecht

Cognado con alemán: schlecht

Cognado con danés: slet

Cognado con sueco: slät

Cognado con noruego: slett

Cognado con islandés: sléttur

In summary

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 slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”).