slim

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Both looked just as when Daisy had seen them before--slim, and poor and uncombed; but the room was clean I thought you warn't coming again," said Mrs. Harbonner I couldn't come till to-day," said Daisy, taking a chair.

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  1. adjective Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
  2. adjective Small in quantity or amount; meager: slim chances of success.
  3. intransitive and transitive verb To become or make slim.

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  • But her figure was that of a child--slim, frail, and still lacking a woman's shapeliness, notwithstanding the fact that it had long carried the burdens of a grown-up Facing her stepfather now, she did not falter. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
  • I had seen the same thing once or twice in people to whom I thought it had come as the fruit of wide experience in the world While Miss Trescott was slim, and rather below the medium in height, she was not at all thin; and had the great mass of ruddy dark hair and fine brown eyes which I remembered so well, and a face which would have been pale had it not been for the tan--the only thing about her which suggested those occupations by which she became her father's "right-hand man." —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
  • She is tall and slim, her eyes are brownish purple and her hair is green, and by this you may know her--she has five fingers on one hand and seven on the other. —  Woodland Tales
  • Mr. Thomas Kimberly--ahum XVIII HOW TOM STACKED UP I reckon if Katherine's brother, Tom Kimberly, had of knowed how much we was waiting for a look at him he might of been some fussed up about it; but when our William brought him and Katherine in he didn't seem rattled He was a right tallish young fellow, maybe twenty-four years or thereabouts, slim, and with a wide mouth. —  The Man Next Door
  • He was only eighteen--slim, tall, bronzed and strong. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
 

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slender ·  lean ·  lithe ·  graceful ·  sleek ·  plump ·  stout ·  blond ·  narrow ·  shapely

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slim:   slimmer ·  slimming ·  slimmed
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Dutch, bad, sly, from Middle Dutch slimp, slim, bad, crooked.

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  1. Not found in Middle English; (a) in the physical sense ‘thin,’ etc., prob. from Irish slīm, thin, lank, = Gael, slīom, slīm, slim, slender, smooth, slippery, also inert, deceitful; in the depreciative senses ‘slight, poor, bad,’ etc., apparently orig. a fig. use of ‘thin,’ mixed with (b) Middle Dutch slim = Middle Low German slim, slanting, wrong, bad (later Icelandic slæmr = Swedish (obsolete) Danish slem, bad), = Old High German *slimb (in deriv. slimbī), Middle High German slimp (slimb-) (later It, sghembo, crooked, slanting), German schlimm, bad, cunning, unwell. For the development of senses, cf. slight, ‘smooth, thin, poor, bad,’ etc. Cf. English dial. slam.
  2. from slim, a.
  3. Dutch slim, cunning. See slim, a.
 

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