Need another word that means the same as “slender”? Find 26 synonyms and 30 related words for “slender” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Slender” are: slight, slim, svelte, thin, lean, willowy, sylphlike, lissom, graceful, rangy, meagre, limited, modest, scanty, scant, sparse, small, little, paltry, inconsiderable, insubstantial, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, negligible, trifling
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “slender” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| deficient | Insufficient or inadequate. Deficient in common sense. |
| graceful | Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth. She was a tall girl slender and graceful. |
| inadequate | Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task. I felt like a fraud inadequate to the task. |
| inconsiderable | Of small size, amount, or extent. A not inconsiderable amount of money. |
| insubstantial | Lacking strength and solidity. The huts are relatively few and insubstantial. |
| insufficient | Not enough; inadequate. Insufficient funds. |
| lean | Lacking excess flesh. A lean year. |
| limited | Denoting a limited company used after a company name. A limited circle of friends. |
| lissom | (of a person or their body) thin, supple, and graceful. The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers. |
| little | Small and of little importance. Little time is left. |
| meagre | (of a person or animal) lean; thin. A tall meagre man. |
| modest | Unassuming in the estimation of one’s abilities or achievements. A modest man of the people. |
| negligible | Not worth considering. He said that the risks were negligible. |
| paltry | Contemptibly small in amount. Naval glory struck him as paltry. |
| rangy | (of a place) having room for ranging; expansive or spacious. A pale rangy boy in his late teens. |
| scant | Barely sufficient or adequate. She weighed a scant two pounds. |
| scanty | Small or insufficient in quantity or amount. A scanty harvest. |
| slight | Small in degree; inconsiderable. She was slight and delicate looking. |
| slim | Of a garment cut on slender lines designed to make the wearer appear slim. A pair of slim immaculately cut trousers. |
| small | Relatively moderate limited or small. A small business. |
| sparse | Thinly dispersed or scattered. Trees were sparse. |
| svelte | Moving and bending with ease. She was svelte and sophisticated. |
| sylphlike | (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph. His arm curled around her sylphlike waist. |
| thin | Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. A thin reedy little voice. |
| trifling | Not worth considering. A trifling matter. |
| willowy | (of a person) tall, slim, and lithe. A beautiful willowy blonde. |
| befriend | Act as or become a friend to (someone), especially when they are in need of help or support. He makes a point of befriending newcomers to Parliament. |
| bony | Being very thin. Her bony wrist. |
| cramped | Uncomfortably small or restricted. Trying to bring children up in cramped high rise apartments. |
| folk | Relating to folk music. An old folks home. |
| gangly | Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. |
| grace | In Greek mythology three beautiful goddesses Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosyne believed to personify and bestow charm grace and beauty. There but for the grace of God go I. |
| graceful | Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth. She was a tall girl slender and graceful. |
| gully | A fielder at gully. He was caught in the gully by Jones. |
| lank | Of a person lanky. The man had lank brown greasy hair. |
| lanky | Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. A lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man. |
| lissom | Moving and bending with ease. The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers. |
| lithe | Gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease. She lay gazing up at his tall lithe figure. |
| narrow | A narrow channel connecting two larger areas of water. The road narrowed and crossed an old bridge. |
| orphan | Make a child an orphan. John was orphaned at 12. |
| refined | Precise to a fine degree. Refined people with refined taste. |
| silhouette | Project on a background such as a screen like a silhouette. The castle was silhouetted against the sky. |
| skinny | A skinny person. In the winter I live in skinny jeans and boots. |
| slim | A course or period of slimming. A slim girl with straight blonde hair. |
| small | A garment size for a small person. Cut the okra up small. |
| sophisticated | Appealing to or frequented by people who are sophisticated. A sophisticated audience. |
| supple | (used of persons’ bodies) capable of moving or bending freely. These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use. |
| svelte | Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience. She was svelte and sophisticated. |
| tall | A garment size for a tall person. A tall story. |
| tapered | Becoming gradually narrower. Trousers with tapered legs. |
| thin | Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. The blood was flowing thin. |
| thinness | The quality of air containing less oxygen than normal. The thinness of the line between tolerance and blackmail. |
| tiny | Very small. Tiny feet. |
| urbane | Courteous and refined in manner (typically used of a man. Urbane wit was the mark of taste and cultivation. |
| waif | A young person who is thin and looks unhealthy or uncared for. She is foster mother to various waifs and strays. |
| willowy | Slender and graceful. Willowy meadow land. |
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