Noun: slight
| Singular | slight |
| Plural | slights |
Sample Sentences
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Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest. [1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:]
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But you, you're not allowed
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You're uninvited
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An unfortunate slight [1997, Alanis Morissette, “Uninvited”, performed by Alanis Morissette:]
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For till that stownd could never wight him harme,
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By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XXXVI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like slight
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”). See: Middle English Nouns '
slight', Old English Nouns '
sliht', English Nouns '
slick', Icelandic Nouns '
sléttur'.
Verbs referencing "slight"
Swedish Nouns
slätt.