slender

Meaning

1. Thin; slim.
2. 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

Hyphenated as

slen‧der

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈslɛndə/

Etymology

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.