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slight in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. pay no attention to, disrespect
    "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"
    slight  cold-shoulder 
adjective
  1. lacking substance or significance
    "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"
    flimsy  fragile  slight  tenuous  thin 
  2. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
    "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"
    little  slight 
  3. being of delicate or slender build
    "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
    slender  slight  slim  svelte 
noun
  1. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
    rebuff  slight 
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