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Adjective: slender (slenderer,slenderest)  slen-du(r)
  1. Being of delicate or thin build
    "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"
    - slight, slim, svelte
     
  2. Very narrow
    "a slender line across the page"
    - thin, slimline
     
  3. Having little width in proportion to the length or height
    "a slender pole"
     
  4. Small in quantity
    "slender wages"
    - slim
     
  5. Moving and bending with ease
    - lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, supple, svelte, sylphlike

Derived forms: slenderer, slenderest

See also: graceful, lean, little, narrow, slenderly, slenderness, small, thin