slim

Signification (English)

Adj

1. Slender, thin.
2. Slender, thin.
3. Slender, thin.
4. Slender, thin.
5. Very small, tiny.
6. Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
7. (obsolete) Sly, crafty.

Noun

1. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
2. A potato farl.
3. AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
4. (slang) Cocaine.

Verb

1. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
2. To make slimmer; to reduce in size.

Concepts

mince

maigrir

svelte

mincir

élancé

dégraisser

amincir

fin

🔚

perdre du poids

maigre

amaigrir

étriqué

grand et maigre

s’amaigrir

décrocher

se maigrir

délicat

étroit

insignifiant

léger

menu

petit

retors

rusé

subtil

dégingandé

Synonyms

slender

thin

lean

skinny

svelte

slight

delicate

slenderize

lose weight

slim down

lissome

narrow

dainty

reduce

scrawny

fine

small

emaciated

nice

subtle

graceful

melt off

lithe

willowy

frail

lanky

rangy

emaciate

sly

spare

gaunt

become thin

sleek

tall

lank

meager

meagre

minuscule

minute

neat

nonexistent

peaked

poor

powerless

raw boned

reedy

refined

scraggly

sensitive

shapely

sharp

sleazy

slimsy

slippy

soft

subtile

symmetrical

tactful

tenuous

ticklish

unnerved

waspish

weak

well-disposed

well-proportioned

wither

worn

adynamic

become small

gossamery

make thin

well-shaped

pass with no objection

subjugable

jimp

subduable

slender-bodied

not thick

slim-bodied

unfattened

not thin not fat

slab sided

adulterate

miniscule

attenuate

bad

👎

beautiful

bony

clean-limbed

cunning

cutdown

dapper

debilitated

detract

dicky

diet

dull

elegant

enervated

exquisite

faint

feeble

flagging

flimsy

forceless

fragile

gracile

illness

inferior

jejune

languid

leery

light

lightsome

lissom

little

low-grade

macerate

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slɪm/

Étymologie (English)

Cognate with néerlandais: slim

Cognate with moyen haut-allemand: slimp

Cognate with allemand: schlimm

Cognate with frison occidental: slim

In summary

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.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).