slight

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

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

Verb

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

desaire

delgado

delicado

escaso

pequeño

agravio

injuriar

despreciar

escurrido

frágil

poco

insustancial

estilizado

feo

menosprecio

bajo

esbelto

fino

desprecio

fåtalig

intrascendente

poco importante

sin

sin importancia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/slaɪt/

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).