slight

adjective · verb · nounA2

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
slighter
Superlative
slightest
  1. 1.

    Minor; small in amount

  2. 2.

    Of slender build.

    a slight but graceful woman

    Đồng nghĩa: lithe, svelte, willowy, gaunt, gracile, lank, lean, leansome, lithe, lithesome, lissome, rangy, sleek, slender, slight, slim, slinky, svelte, swack, sylphlike, willowy

  3. 3.

    (regional)Even, smooth or level.

    A slight stone

    Đồng nghĩa: flat, glassy, slick, downy, even, flat, frictionless, lanate, level, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, slight, smooth, velutinous, velvety

  4. 4.

    (especially)(especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.

    The sea was slight and calm

  5. 5.

    (obsolete)Foolish; silly; not intellectual.

    Đồng nghĩa: daft, fatuous, soft in the head, asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, daft, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, fatuous, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, goofy, idiotic, idle, insipient, mookish, naive, silly, simple, slight, slow-witted, softheaded, soft in the head, sottish, stupid, thick, unsage, unwise, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, crackpot, dense

  6. 6.

    (obsolete, regional)Bad, of poor quality.

    1889 (first published), George Washington, Writings we frequently have slight Goods and sometimes old and unsaleable Articles

    Đồng nghĩa: flimsy, lousy, shoddy, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched

  7. 7.

    (dated)Slighting; treating with disdain.

    Đồng nghĩa: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, belittling, blistering, contemptuous, contumelious, deprecative, derogative, despising, disdainful, dismissive, disrespectful, low, scathing, scornful, slight, slighting, sneerful, sniffy, withering

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
slights
V_ing/Gerund
slighting
V_ed/pp
slighted
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.

    Đồng nghĩa: take lightly

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To give lesser weight or importance to.

    Đồng nghĩa: belittle, bagatellize, banalize, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, denigrate, degrade, deprecate, derogate, disparage, dispraise, downplay, lilliputianize, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, play down, set at nought, superficialize, trivialize, underestimate, underplay, understate, vilipend

  3. 3.

    (transitive)To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.

    Đồng nghĩa: contemn, despise, contemn, despect, disrespect, despise, disdain, disesteem, look down on, misrespect, scorn, spurn

  4. 4.

    (intransitive)To act negligently or carelessly.

  5. 5.

    (transitive)(transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.

  6. 6.

    (obsolete, transitive)To make even or level.

    Đồng nghĩa: flatten, level

  7. 7.

    (transitive)To throw heedlessly.

    Đồng nghĩa: bung, hurl, soss, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
slights
  1. 1.

    The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.

    Đồng nghĩa: ignoring, neglect, belittlement

  2. 2.

    (obsolete)Sleight.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht (smooth, level), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (slippery, flat, level, plain), related to slick. Cognate with slicht, sljocht, slecht bad, slecht, schlecht and schlicht (plain, artless, natural), slet, slät, slett, sléttur.

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