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adj. Small in size, degree, or amount: a slight tilt; a slight surplus.

adj. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail: a slight foundation; slight evidence.

adj. Of small importance or consideration; trifling: slight matters.

adj. Small and slender in build or construction; delicate.

v. To treat as of small importance; make light of.

v. To treat with discourteous reserve or inattention.

v. To do negligently or thoughtlessly; scant.

n. The act or an instance of slighting.

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).

adj. Small, weak, or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.

adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.

adj. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.

v. To treat with disdain or neglect.

v. To act negligently or carelessly.

v. To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.

v. To make even or level.

v. To throw heedlessly.

n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.

n. Sleight.

n. Sleight.

v. To overthrow; to demolish.

v. To make even or level.

v. To throw heedlessly.

adj. Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances

adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.

adj. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

v. To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of.

n. The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.

ad. Slightly.

An obsolete form of sly.

Plain; smooth (in a physical sense).

Slender; slim; thin; light; hence, frail; unsubstantial: as, a slight figure; a slight structure.

Slender in character or ability; lacking force of character or intellect; feeble; hence, silly; foolish.

Very small, insignificant, or trifling; unimportant.

Of little amount; meager; slender: as, a slight repast.

Of little weight, or force, or intensity; feeble; gentle; mild: as, a slight impulse or impression; slight efforts; a slight cold.

Of little thoroughness; superficial; cursory; hasty; imperfect; not thorough or exhaustive: as, a slight glance; slight examination; a slight raking.

Slighting; contemptuous; disdainful.

Synonyms Flimsy.

Petty, scanty, hurried.

To make plain or smooth; smooth: as, to slight linen (to iron it).

To make level; demolish; overthrow.

To throw; cast.

To treat as of little value, or as unworthy of notice; disregard intentionally; treat with intentional neglect or disrespect; make little of.

Synonyms Disregard, etc. See neglect, v. t.

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.

n. Intentional neglect; disrespect.

n. Synonyms Disrespect. See the verb.

n. A more correct, but obsolete spelling of sleight.

A contraction of by this light or God's light.

n. A simplified and former spelling of sleight.

v. pay no attention to, disrespect

n. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

adj. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some

adj. lacking substance or significance

adj. being of delicate or slender build

"Your expression, "and tends to depart in a slight degree," I think hardly grammatical; a _tendency_ to depart cannot very well be said to be in a slight degree; a _departure_ can, but a tendency must be either a _slight tendency_ or a _strong tendency_; the degree to which the departure may reach must depend on favourable or unfavourable causes in addition to the tendency itself."

small    unimportant    insignificant    lean    thin    to slight over   

slighted    slighting    slights   

disregard    push aside    brush off    brush aside    dismiss    discount    ignore   

slender    gentle    small    meager    unimportant    disregard    to slight over    to slight off    slight negligence   

slightly    slightness    slightish    slightingly    put a slight upon   

sleight    overthrow    demolish    inconsiderable    unimportant    insignificant    weak    gentle    slender    foolish   

Bright    Dwight    Knight    Night    White    Wight    Wright    alight    allright    alright   

sudden    faint    considerable    occasional    small