slender
Meagre; deficient.
Example
“Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.”
Related words
- slenderization
- slenderize
- unslender
- slender-billed curlew
- slenderish
- slenderly
- slenderness
- slender reed
- red slender loris
- slender loris
- slender moa
- Slender Man
Word history
From Middle Dutch "slinder" (thin, lank).
Where this comes from
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