slight
Dismiss with coldness
Slight describes something small in degree or importance: a slight improvement, a slight chance, a slight delay.
A slight person has a slender, delicate build.
To slight someone is to treat them with disrespect or indifference, often by ignoring them: She felt slighted when they didn't invite her.
A slight is such an act of disrespect: He never forgot the slight.
Too small to consider
- minorScale with lowered third
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
- trivialLacking significance or weight
- marginalBarely adequate
inconsequential · trifling · imperceptible · minuscule · nominal · token · scant · meager
Deliberate dismissive rejection
- affrontDeliberate public insult
- rebuffAbrupt, curt rejection
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- put-downDisparaging remark
offense · dig · cut · diss · cold-shoulder · brush-off · dismissal · indignity
Easily broken or harmed
- frailWeak and breakable
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
- tenderSoft or sore
- breakableCapable of shattering
vulnerable · weak · insubstantial · gossamer · ethereal · brittle · featherweight · wispy
negligible
Too small to consider
- minorScale with lowered third
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
- trivialLacking significance or weight
marginal · inconsequential · trifling · imperceptible · minuscule · nominal · token · scant · meager · faint
snub
Deliberate dismissive rejection
put-down · offense · dig · cut · diss · cold-shoulder · brush-off · dismissal · indignity · discourtesy
slim
Thin or meager
willowy · lean · delicate · petite · wispy · lithe · narrow · fine · spare · dainty
delicate
Easily broken or harmed
breakable · vulnerable · weak · insubstantial · gossamer · ethereal · brittle · featherweight · wispy · diaphanous
- intensity levelshigh, low, moderate, medium, intense
- shortshort, brief, small, little, tiny
- weakweak, feeble, frail, fragile, faint
- Mercalli Scalefeeble, moderate, strong, destructive, ruinous
- body typesectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph, somatotype, athletic build
- contemptcontempt, scorn, disdain, despise, derision
slightsubstantial
Of notable size or importance
significant · considerable · important · consequential · severe
slighthonor
High regard, moral dignity
respect · praise · compliment · tribute · acknowledge
- not in the slightestComplete emphatic denial
- slightly drunkMildly intoxicated condition
- slightly open
- slight tremor
- slight nod
- slightly annoyed
slightly, slightest, slighting, slighted, slighter, slights, slightness