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slight
Synonyms and Antonyms of slight
- a small child with a slight build
- a slight comedy that did nothing to further her career
neither here nor there
- The slight youth packed a surprisingly solid punch.
bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine, Lilliputian, little, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), puny, pygmy, shrimpy, small, smallish, subnormal, toylike, undersized (also undersize)
runtish, runty, scrubby, stunted
bitty, infinitesimal, micro, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, miniaturized, minuscule, minute, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
bulky, hefty, hulking, massive, voluminous
cavernous, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, gross, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, mammoth, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
- Apart from a slight fishy taste, the dish was fine.
- only a slight chance of success
Synonym Discussion of slight
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- thin wire
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- a thin soup
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- the slender legs of a Sheraton chair
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- a slim volume of poetry
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- a slim chance
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- a slight build
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- a tenuous thread
slight
Synonyms and Antonyms of slight
- I refused to respond to their petty slights.
slight
Synonyms and Antonyms of slight
- The dancers felt slighted by the harsh comments of the judges.
- As a temp worker, she often feels slighted by the people she has to work with.
- music critics who slight any style of music that doesn't fit their personal taste
look down one's nose (at), sneeze at, thumb one's nose (at), walk over
cherish, prize, treasure, value
hallow, revere, venerate, worship
accept, appreciate, approve (of), care (for), countenance, favor, OK (or okay), subscribe (to)
- slighted several major authors in her survey of 20th-century fiction
brush (aside or off), reject, shrug off, slough (off) also sluff (off)
Synonym Discussion of slight
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- habitually neglected his studies
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- disregarded the wishes of his family
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- ignored the snide remark
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- in my rush I overlooked a key example
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- slighted several major authors in her survey
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- forget what others say
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