slight
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- Small.
- Small.
- Small.
- Small.
- Of slender build.
- Even, smooth or level.
- Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
- (obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
- (obsolete) Bad, of poor quality.
- Slighting; treating with disdain.
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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/slaɪt/
Etimologia
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”).
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