slight

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Small in size, degree, or amount: a slight tilt; a slight surplus.
2. adj. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail: a slight foundation; slight evidence.
3. adj. Of small importance or consideration; trifling: slight matters.
4. adj. Small and slender in build or construction; delicate.
5. v. To treat as of small importance; make light of.
6. v. To treat with discourteous reserve or inattention.
7. v. To do negligently or thoughtlessly; scant.
8. n. The act or an instance of slighting.
9. n. A deliberate discourtesy; a snub: "It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights” ( Elizabeth Kenny).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. An obsolete form of sly.
2. Plain; smooth (in a physical sense).
3. Slender; slim; thin; light; hence, frail; unsubstantial: as, a slight figure; a slight structure.
4. Slender in character or ability; lacking force of character or intellect; feeble; hence, silly; foolish.
5. Very small, insignificant, or trifling; unimportant. Trivial; paltry: as, a slight excuse.
6. Of little amount; meager; slender: as, a slight repast.
7. Of little weight, or force, or intensity; feeble; gentle; mild: as, a slight impulse or impression; slight efforts; a slight cold.
8. Of little thoroughness; superficial; cursory; hasty; imperfect; not thorough or exhaustive: as, a slight glance; slight examination; a slight raking.
9. Slighting; contemptuous; disdainful.
10. Synonyms Flimsy.
11. Petty, scanty, hurried.
12. To make plain or smooth; smooth: as, to slight linen (to iron it).
13. To make level; demolish; overthrow.
14. To throw; cast.
15. To treat as of little value, or as unworthy of notice; disregard intentionally; treat with intentional neglect or disrespect; make little of.
16. Synonyms Disregard, etc. See neglect, v. t.
17. n. An act of intentional neglect shown toward one who expects some notice or courtesy; failure to notice one; a deliberate ignoring or disregard of a person, out of displeasure or contempt.
18. n. Intentional neglect; disrespect.
19. n. Synonyms Disrespect. See the verb.
20. n. A more correct, but obsolete spelling of sleight.
21. A contraction of by this light or God's light.
22. n. A simplified and former spelling of sleight.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Small, weak, or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
2. adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
3. adj. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
4. v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.
5. v. To treat with disdain or neglect.
6. v. To act negligently or carelessly.
7. v. military To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
8. v. To make even or level.
9. v. To throw heedlessly.
10. n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
11. n. Sleight.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Sleight.
2. v. obsolete To overthrow; to demolish.
3. v. obsolete To make even or level.
4. v. obsolete To throw heedlessly.
5. adj. Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances
6. adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
7. adj. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
8. v. To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of.
9. n. The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
10. adv. Obs. or Poetic Slightly.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. pay no attention to, disrespect
2. n. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
3. adj. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
4. adj. lacking substance or significance
5. adj. being of delicate or slender build