Word Meanings - SLIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English 1. Worthless; bad. 2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse."

Additional info about word: SLIM

worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English 1. Worthless; bad. 2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse." Barrow. 3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree. Grose.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLIM)

• Lank
• Lean
• loose
• slender
• slim
• long
• lax
• rawboned
• Slender
• Thin
• narrow
• slight
• small
• trivial
• spare
• inadequate
• fragile
• feeble
• flimsy
• meagre
• inconsiderable
• superficial

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLIM)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to SLIM)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.