slight
adjective · verb · nounA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Minor; small in amount
- 2.
Of slender build.
a slight but graceful woman
Đồng nghĩa: lithe, svelte, willowy, gaunt, gracile, lank, lean, leansome, lithe, lithesome, lissome, rangy, sleek, slender, slight, slim, slinky, svelte, swack, sylphlike, willowy
- 3.
(regional)Even, smooth or level.
A slight stone
Đồng nghĩa: flat, glassy, slick, downy, even, flat, frictionless, lanate, level, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, slight, smooth, velutinous, velvety
- 4.
(especially)(especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.
The sea was slight and calm
- 5.
(obsolete)Foolish; silly; not intellectual.
Đồng nghĩa: daft, fatuous, soft in the head, asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, daft, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, fatuous, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, goofy, idiotic, idle, insipient, mookish, naive, silly, simple, slight, slow-witted, softheaded, soft in the head, sottish, stupid, thick, unsage, unwise, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, crackpot, dense
- 6.
(obsolete, regional)Bad, of poor quality.
1889 (first published), George Washington, Writings we frequently have slight Goods and sometimes old and unsaleable Articles
Đồng nghĩa: flimsy, lousy, shoddy, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched
- 7.
(dated)Slighting; treating with disdain.
Đồng nghĩa: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, belittling, blistering, contemptuous, contumelious, deprecative, derogative, despising, disdainful, dismissive, disrespectful, low, scathing, scornful, slight, slighting, sneerful, sniffy, withering
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
Đồng nghĩa: take lightly
- 2.
(transitive)To give lesser weight or importance to.
Đồng nghĩa: belittle, bagatellize, banalize, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, denigrate, degrade, deprecate, derogate, disparage, dispraise, downplay, lilliputianize, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, play down, set at nought, superficialize, trivialize, underestimate, underplay, understate, vilipend
- 3.
(transitive)To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward.
Đồng nghĩa: contemn, despise, contemn, despect, disrespect, despise, disdain, disesteem, look down on, misrespect, scorn, spurn
- 4.
(intransitive)To act negligently or carelessly.
- 5.
(transitive)(transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To make even or level.
Đồng nghĩa: flatten, level
- 7.
(transitive)To throw heedlessly.
Đồng nghĩa: bung, hurl, soss, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
Đồng nghĩa: ignoring, neglect, belittlement
- 2.
(obsolete)Sleight.
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From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht (smooth, level), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (slippery, flat, level, plain), related to slick. Cognate with slicht, sljocht, slecht bad, slecht, schlecht and schlicht (plain, artless, natural), slet, slät, slett, sléttur.