Slender

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›ndÉ™(r)

Origin

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.

Full definition of slender

Adjective

1. Thin; slim.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 3, Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
2. A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
3. (Gaelic languages)  Palatalized.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• (palatalized) broad

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