Adjective: slender
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | slenderer |
| Superlative | slenderest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more slender |
| Superlative | most slender |
Sample Sentences
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A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
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She is very slender.
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Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband. [1964, Philip K. Dick, “THIRTEEN”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 193:]
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Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
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The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender. [1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 413:]
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The slender service between Ellesmere Port and Helsby has been added, too. [2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 42:]
Adjectives inflected like slender
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“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.