slim

Meaning

1. intelligent, bright
2. clever, smart
3. (Dutch,Eastern,dialectal) wrong, incorrect, bad

Concepts

smart

cunning

sly

clever

wily

difficult

inconvenient

crafty

sneaky

hard

bright

arduous

tough

astute

dodgy

knowledgeable

pawky

politic

sharp

cute

apt

prudent

evil

malign

wicked

needle-shaped

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slɪm/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slim, slem, slimp, slemp, from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), compare German schlimm (“bad”), English slim. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”.

Sentences

Wat kunnen we slim bereiken ?

What can we shrewdly achieve?