slender

English

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 *sleidh- (“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.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(r)

Adjective

slender (comparative slenderer, superlative slenderest)

1. Thin; slim.

   A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.

2. (Gaelic languages) palatalized

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:scrawny

Antonyms

• (palatalized): broad
• See also Wikisaurus:obese

Translations

thin

• Arabic: نحيف (ar) (naħīf)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苗條 (cmn), 苗条 (cmn) (miáotiáo)

• Crimean Tatar: cuka
• Czech: štíhlý (cs) m, útlý (cs) m
• Dutch: slank (nl)
• Finnish: hoikka (fi)
• French: svelte (fr)
• German: schlank (de)
• Hindi: पतला (hi) (patlā)
• Hungarian: sovány (hu)
• Irish: caol (ga)
• Italian: snello (it)

• Japanese: ほっそりした (ja) (hossori-shita)
• Jèrriais: mînchon
• Korean: 날씬한 (ko) (nalssinhan)
• Latvian: slaids (lv)
• Macedonian: тенок (mk) (ténok) m
• Portuguese: esbelto (pt), magro (pt)
• Romanian: subtire (ro) n
• Russian: тонкий (ru) (tónkij), стройный (ru) (strójnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: caol (gd), seang (gd)
• Slovak: štíhly (sk) m, tenký (sk) m
• Spanish: esbelto (es)
• Swedish: slank (sv)

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