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- [slim]
- /slɪm/
- /slɪm/
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- [slim]
- /slɪm/
Definitions of slim word
- adjective slim slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure. 1
- adjective slim poor or inferior: a slim chance; a slim excuse. 1
- adjective slim small or inconsiderable; meager; scanty: a slim income. 1
- adjective slim sized for the thinner than average person. 1
- verb with object slim to make slim. 1
- verb without object slim to become slim. 1
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Origin of slim
First appearance:
before 1650 One of the 45% oldest English words
1650-60; < Dutch slim sly, (earlier) crooked (cognate with German schlimm bad, (earlier) crooked)
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Parts of speech for Slim
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
slim popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
slim usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for slim
verb slim
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bant — string
- banted — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- banting — slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
adj slim
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- few and far between — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- few — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
noun slim
- gauntness — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- narrowness — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- lankiness — The state or condition of being lanky.
- leanness — (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle.
- wiriness — The state of being wiry.
adjective slim
- fleshless — Without flesh, lacking flesh.
- forceless — Without force.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
Antonyms for slim
noun slim
- adiposity — the state of being fat; obesity
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- distension — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- fatness — the state or condition of being fat; obesity; corpulence.
adj slim
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- beefcake — Attractive men with large muscles can be referred to as beefcake.
- beefy — Someone, especially a man, who is beefy has a big body and large muscles.
- blubbery — of, containing, or like blubber; fat
- brawny — Someone who is brawny is strong and has big muscles.
adjective slim
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- fatlike — Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
- gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
- gross — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- irresilient — Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
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