"slender" meaning in English

See slender in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈslɛndə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈslɛndɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-slender.ogg Forms: slenderer [comparative], more slender [comparative], slenderest [superlative], most slender [superlative]
enPR: slĕnʹdər [General-American] Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Old Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|slendre}} Middle English slendre, {{der|en|fro|esclendre||thin, slender}} Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), {{der|en|odt|slinder||thin, lank}} Old Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*slindraz||sliding, slippery}} Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*sleydʰ-||to slip}} Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”), {{cog|bar|Schlenderling||that which dangles}} Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), {{cog|de|schlendern||to saunter, stroll}} German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), {{cog|nl|slidderen}} Dutch slidderen, {{cog|nds|slindern||to slide on ice}} Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} slender (comparative slenderer or more slender, superlative slenderest or most slender)
  1. Thin; slim. Synonyms (thin): lithe Translations (thin): ῥαδινός (rhadinós) (Ancient Greek), نَحِيف (naḥīf) (Arabic), أَهْيَف (ʔahyaf) (Arabic), نَحِيل (naḥīl) (Arabic), стро́йны (strójny) (Belarusian), стро́мкі (strómki) (Belarusian), стро́ен (stróen) (Bulgarian), тъ́нък (tǎ́nǎk) (Bulgarian), esvelt (Catalan), ᎤᎴᏐᏓ (ulesoda) [animate] (Cherokee), 苗條 (Chinese Mandarin), 苗条 (miáotiáo) (Chinese Mandarin), cuka (Crimean Tatar), štíhlý (Czech), útlý (Czech), slank (Danish), slank (Dutch), svelta (Esperanto), hoikka (Finnish), svelte (French), mince (French), esbelto [masculine] (Galician), schlank (German), ισχνός (ischnós) (Greek), ραδινός (radinós) (Greek), λεπτός (leptós) (Greek), άπλερος (ápleros) [masculine] (Greek), βράδινος (brádinos) [Aeolic] (Greek), पतला (patlā) (Hindi), vékony (Hungarian), karcsú (note: of a person) (Hungarian), caol (Irish), seangchruthach (note: of a person) (Irish), snello (Italian), ほっそりした (hossori shita) (Japanese), 細い (hosoi) (alt: ほそい) (Japanese), 細長い (hosonagai) (alt: ほそながい) (Japanese), 날씬하다 (nalssinhada) (Korean), tenuis (Latin), gracilis (Latin), slaids (Latvian), тенок (tenok) (Macedonian), виток (vitok) (Macedonian), tūpuhi (Maori), tūpuhipuhi (Maori), pūhihi (Maori), pīrahirahi (Maori), mînchon (Norman), slank (Norwegian Bokmål), ضعیف (zaʼif) (Ottoman Turkish), schlank (Plautdietsch), denn (Plautdietsch), szczupły (Polish), smukły (Polish), esbelto (Portuguese), magro (Portuguese), subtire [neuter] (Romanian), то́нкий (tónkij) (Russian), стро́йный (strójnyj) (Russian), तनु (tanu) (Sanskrit), caol (Scottish Gaelic), seang (Scottish Gaelic), ви̏так [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), мр̏шав [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), vȉtak [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), mȑšav [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), štíhly (Slovak), tenký (Slovak), vitek (Slovene), esbelto (Spanish), slank (Swedish), струнки́й (strunkýj) (Ukrainian), тонки́й (tonkýj) (Ukrainian), پتلا (patlā) (Urdu), mảnh khảnh (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-slender-en-adj-9dkD5kkL Disambiguation of 'thin': 100 0 0 Disambiguation of 'thin': 100 0 0
  2. (figurative) meagre; deficient Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms (meagre): insufficient
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  3. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.
    Sense id: en-slender-en-adj-s7bz42ax
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: physique, thin Hyponyms: ectomorphic, flat-chested Related terms: cadaverous, scrawny, thin person

Inflected forms

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      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "large"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
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      "word": "slender poison"
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      "word": "slender reed"
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      "word": "slender shrew"
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        "2": "slidderen"
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        "comparative"
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      "word": "scrawny"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "Thin; slim."
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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          "word": "lithe"
        }
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "naḥīf",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "نَحِيف"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔahyaf",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "أَهْيَف"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "naḥīl",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "نَحِيل"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "strójny",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "стро́йны"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "strómki",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "стро́мкі"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "stróen",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "стро́ен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "tǎ́nǎk",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "тъ́нък"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "esvelt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "chr",
          "lang": "Cherokee",
          "roman": "ulesoda",
          "sense": "thin",
          "tags": [
            "animate"
          ],
          "word": "ᎤᎴᏐᏓ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "苗條"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "miáotiáo",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "苗条"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "crh",
          "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "cuka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "štíhlý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "útlý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "slank"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "slank"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "svelta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "hoikka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "svelte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "mince"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "thin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "esbelto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "schlank"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ischnós",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "ισχνός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "radinós",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "ραδινός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "leptós",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "λεπτός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ápleros",
          "sense": "thin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "άπλερος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "brádinos",
          "sense": "thin",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "βράδινος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "rhadinós",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "ῥαδινός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "patlā",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "पतला"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "vékony"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "note": "of a person",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "karcsú"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "caol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "note": "of a person",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "seangchruthach"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "snello"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hossori shita",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "ほっそりした"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "alt": "ほそい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hosoi",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "細い"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "alt": "ほそながい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hosonagai",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "細長い"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "nalssinhada",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "날씬하다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "tenuis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "thin",
          "word": "gracilis"
        },
        {
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      "word": "slender-horned gazelle"
    },
    {
      "word": "slenderish"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender loris"
    },
    {
      "word": "slenderly"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender moa"
    },
    {
      "word": "slenderness"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender poison"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender reed"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender seahorse"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender sea lettuce"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender sedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender shrew"
    },
    {
      "word": "slender skimmer"
    },
    {
      "word": "Slender West Lake"
    }
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        "2": "enm",
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      },
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    },
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    },
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        "3": "",
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
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      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "more slender",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slenderest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "most slender",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "physique"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "thin"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "slen‧der"
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "ectomorphic"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "flat-chested"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "cadaverous"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "scrawny"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "thin person"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Thin; slim."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "slim",
          "slim"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 413:",
          "text": "The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 42:",
          "text": "The slender service between Ellesmere Port and Helsby has been added, too.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "meagre; deficient"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meagre",
          "meagre"
        ],
        [
          "deficient",
          "deficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) meagre; deficient"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Palatalized."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Palatalized",
          "palatalized"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Gaelic languages",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Gaelic languages) Palatalized."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈslɛndə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "slĕnʹdər",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈslɛndɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-slender.ogg",
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      "rhymes": "-ɛndə(ɹ)"
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      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "lithe"
    },
    {
      "word": "svelte"
    },
    {
      "word": "willowy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "meagre",
      "word": "insufficient"
    },
    {
      "word": "scarce"
    },
    {
      "word": "sparse"
    },
    {
      "word": "inadequate"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "gaunt"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "gracile"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "lank"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "lean"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "leansome"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "lithesome"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "lissome"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "rangy"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "sleek"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "slender"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "slight"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "word": "slim"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dated",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "slinky"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:slender",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "swack"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "naḥīf",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "نَحِيف"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔahyaf",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "أَهْيَف"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "naḥīl",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "نَحِيل"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "strójny",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "стро́йны"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "strómki",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "стро́мкі"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "stróen",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "стро́ен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tǎ́nǎk",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "тъ́нък"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "esvelt"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "ulesoda",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "animate"
      ],
      "word": "ᎤᎴᏐᏓ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "苗條"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "miáotiáo",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "苗条"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "cuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "štíhlý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "útlý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "slank"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "slank"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "svelta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "hoikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "svelte"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "mince"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esbelto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "schlank"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ischnós",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "ισχνός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "radinós",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "ραδινός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "leptós",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "λεπτός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ápleros",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "άπλερος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "brádinos",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "Aeolic"
      ],
      "word": "βράδινος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "rhadinós",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "ῥαδινός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "patlā",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "पतला"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "vékony"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "note": "of a person",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "karcsú"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "caol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "note": "of a person",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "seangchruthach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "snello"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hossori shita",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "ほっそりした"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほそい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hosoi",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "細い"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほそながい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hosonagai",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "細長い"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nalssinhada",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "날씬하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "tenuis"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "gracilis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "slaids"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tenok",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "тенок"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vitok",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "виток"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "tūpuhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "tūpuhipuhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "pūhihi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "pīrahirahi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "mînchon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "slank"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "zaʼif",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "ضعیف"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "schlank"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "denn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "szczupły"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "smukły"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "esbelto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "magro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "subtire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tónkij",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "то́нкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "strójnyj",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "стро́йный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "tanu",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "तनु"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "caol"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "seang"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "ви̏так"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "мр̏шав"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "vȉtak"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thin",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "mȑšav"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "štíhly"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "tenký"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "vitek"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "esbelto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "slank"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "strunkýj",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "струнки́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tonkýj",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "тонки́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "patlā",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "پتلا"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "thin",
      "word": "mảnh khảnh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slender"
}

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