slender
being of delicate or slender build
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,669 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,258 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- being of delicate or slender build also: slight, slim, svelte she was slender as a willow shoot is slendera slim girl with straight blonde hair
- very narrow also: thin a thin line across the page
- having little width in proportion to the length or height a slender pole
- small in quantity also: slim slender wagesa slim chance of winning
slender in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Lodge's lyric genius was a clear if slender rill.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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One was chastely, severely elegant, holding a single hat poised on a slender stick.
Half Portions · Edna Ferber · Chapter 1
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Where sails he now, that trim sailing-master, Slender, yes, as the ship’s sky-s’l pole?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Clara was slender and elfish, with a wealth of yellow tresses falling down her back.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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The central one was a tall, slender lady, with a light shawl hung round her shoulders.
The Two Sides of the Shield · Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge · Chapter 1