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slender
English
Etymology
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 *sleyd?- (“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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sl?nd?/
- (General American) enPR: sl?n?d?r, IPA(key): /?sl?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
- Hyphenation: slen?der
Adjective
slender (comparative slenderer, superlative slenderest)
- Thin; slim.
- (figuratively) meagre; deficient
- Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
- (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.
Synonyms
- (thin): lithe, svelte, willowy; see also Thesaurus:slender
- (meagre): insufficient, scarce, sparse; see also Thesaurus:inadequate
Antonyms
- (palatalized): broad
- See also Thesaurus:obese
Derived terms
- slender reed
Translations
Anagrams
- lenders, relends
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diaphanous
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diaphan?s) ('To appear/shine through '; 'dia' - through + 'phaino' - to appear).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da??æf.?n.?s/
Adjective
diaphanous (comparative more diaphanous, superlative most diaphanous)
- Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
- 2004, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Maulden (translator), Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98,
- The evening mist, drifting among the leafless poplars, veiled their silhouettes with a violet film, paler and more translucent than the most diaphanous gauze that might have caught in their branches.
- 2004, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Maulden (translator), Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98,
- Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
- 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
- The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
- 1963, Hermann Weyl, quoted in 1985, Floyd Merrell, Deconstruction Reframed, page 67,
- What is amazing is that "a concept that is created by mind itself, the sequence of integers, the simplest and most diaphanous thing for the constructive mind, assumes a similar aspect of obscurity and deficiency when viewed from the axiomatic angle" (Weyl, 1963, 220).
- 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
- (physics) Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
Synonyms
- (allowing light to pass through): translucent, transparent, see-through, sheer
- (of a fine, almost transparent, texture): delicate, insubstantial, sheer
Antonyms
- (transparent or translucent): opaque
- (of a fine, almost transparent, texture): concrete, solid
Related terms
- diaphanously
- diaphanousness
Translations
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