SLIGHTLY Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

slightly

adverb

Definition of slightly

as in barely

by a very small margin I thought the first one was slightly better

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as in little

in a very small quantity or degree he was slightly curious about the identity of the wine, but not enough to bother asking

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Recent Examples of slightly Salvador Perez hit a homer off Padres reliever Matt Waldron, a two-run shot that moved the Royals captain slightly closer to the club’s all-time record. — Kansas City Star, 19 July 2026 However, it will be focused higher up in the atmosphere and just bring slightly hazy skies in some areas. — Aleem Agha, ABC News, 18 July 2026 Challah, the eggy bread beloved for its fluffy texture and slightly sweet flavor, has introduced her to new food combinations, bakeries, friends and Weidenfeld’s extended family. — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026 The luxury market is also growing at slightly lower price-points, with large-lot homes in Eagle increasingly running $7 million or $8 million, Pinnix told the Statesman. — Mark Dee july 18, Idaho Statesman, 18 July 2026 Tiny hummingbirds and warblers need very little water, while larger birds like robins and mourning doves appreciate slightly deeper areas. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 18 July 2026 The slightly relaxed fit of a slipcover also works in its favor. — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026 The slightly boring way would have been to flash forward, and they get married or something. — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026 Well this slightly takes the shine of Jay-Z’s Yankee Stadium residency. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slightly

Adverb

Half the time, they’ve barely been touched; give them a yellow card.

— The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Imagine burning down your life's work just to gain an insider edge against a team that barely knows how to play fundamental baseball.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of barely

Adverb

Yet America’s professional soccer league is little esteemed at home and abroad.

— Chris Pope, Washington Post, 15 July 2026
That condition was little changed by marriage or the couple’s first child, born within a week of Mary Kay’s seventeenth birthday, in 1935, or their second, born the following year.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

Definition of little

Adverb

With just one year left on his contract and a 2025 season worth forgetting, a bounce-back will be big for him in 2026.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
And just being able to lean on T-Mo, Ickey, Rasheed, all the guys who’ve done it and been through the trials and tribulations.

— Alex Zietlow July 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026

Definition of just

Adverb

The two countries have never had formal diplomatic ties and have been nominally in a state of war for nearly 80 years after Israel’s establishment.

— Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
In practice, many MSOs grew too fast through acquisition to ever build that platform, ending up with different equipment, different extraction methods, and different SOPs for nominally identical products across their networks.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of nominally

Adverb

An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration has narrowly voted to add six peptides to a drug compounding list.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
The race was in some ways a replay of 2024, when Shah narrowly won in a crowded primary field that included Galán-Woods and lost in the general election.

— Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 23 July 2026

Definition of narrowly

Adverb

In an economy where wages are anchored to what compute would cost to replicate human work, human labor becomes economically marginal—not worthless, but negligibly small relative to the overall pie.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
In other words, the chin contributes negligibly to resisting chewing forces.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

Definition of negligibly

Adverb

That tournament in the past had taken place near the end of the tennis competition, with entrants somewhat dependent on who made it to the latter stages of the singles event or who was willing to stick around.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 24 July 2026
The album that followed a couple of years later has become such an enormous phenomenon, one that somehow grows more beloved with each passing decade, that the impact of 1975’s Fleetwood Mac has been somewhat overlooked.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026

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