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Keywords: slim, slight, inconsiderable, norris, feeble

Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.

Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.

Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.

Keywords: abstemious, frugal, spare, diet

Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

Keywords: pittance, meager, inadequate, pitiful, support

Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.

Keywords: gracefully, ease, bending, moving

gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease

Keywords: uttered, vowels, thin, broad, tone

Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

very narrow; "a thin line across the page"