slender

Meaning

1. Thin; slim.
2. (figuratively) meagre; deficient
3. Palatalized.

Synonyms

slim

thin

lean

svelte

skinny

gaunt

narrow

delicate

slight

fine

lissome

lithe

meagre

graceful

willowy

frail

shapely

poor

flimsy

tapering

sylphlike

dainty

well-proportioned

gracile

scanty

weak

emaciated

subtle

supple

lanky

petite

tall

lissom

rangy

lithesome

reedy

little

meager

well-built

scrawny

sleazy

sleek

slimsy

small

elegant

stately

lank

scant

scarce

scraggly

scraggy

small-time

softy

spare

spiny

streamlined

subtile

symmetrical

tactful

tapered

tenuous

ticklish

trivial

twiggy

underdog

underfed

unimportant

unimposing

unimpressive

uninfluential

venial

wan

washy

waspish

well-disposed

gossamery

no-count

subfusc

very little

well-shaped

pass with no objection

long and thin

being slim

strengthless

jimp

sinewless

be skinny

shrimpy

pretty little

slab sided

svelt

balletic

thib

beautiful

chintzy

clean-limbed

close

dapper

diminutive

elastic

elongate

exquisite

faint

feeble

feminine

♀️

flexible

fooling around

gauzy

gorgeous

handsome

impossible

impotent

inconsiderable

insignificant

invalid

languishing

languorous

light

limited

low

minor

modest

neat

nice

nickel-and-dime

niggling

no-account

paltry

peaked

petty

picayune

piddling

piffling

potty

puny

raw boned

refined

remote

sappy

Translations

schlank

mince

svelte

slank

esbelto

dun

delgado

luchtig

rank

dünn

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈslɛndə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: slendre

Cognate with Bavarian: Schlenderling

Cognate with German: schlendern

Cognate with Dutch: slidderen

Cognate with Low German: slindern

In summary

From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Old Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.