Slight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.

   “give it a slight kick”

2. sıfat Not thorough; superficial.

   “make a slight examination”

3. sıfat Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.

   “we made a slight mistake”

4. sıfat Not far away in space or time.

   “in the slight future”

5. sıfat Of slender build.

   “a slight but graceful woman”

6. sıfat Even, smooth or level.

   “A slight stone”

7. sıfat Still; with little or no movement on the surface.

   “The sea was slight and calm”

8. sıfat Foolish; silly; not intellectual.

   “But no beast ever was so slight, For man, as for his god, to fight; They have more wit, alas! and know Themselves and us better than so.”

9. sıfat Bad, of poor quality.

   “1889 (first published), George Washington, Writings we frequently have slight Goods and sometimes old and unsaleable Articles”

10. sıfat Slighting; treating with disdain.

    “This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]”

11. fiil To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.

    “the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies”

12. fiil To give lesser weight or importance to.

    “Incontiguously (accent on tig; the rest of the syllables slighted) means in an incontiguous manner.”

13. fiil 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.

    “Though true of heart, she was somewhat of a coquette in manner; and I was jealous as a Turk. She slighted me in a thousand ways, yet would never acknowledge herself to be in the wrong. She would drive me mad with anger, and then force me to beg her pardon.”

14. fiil To act negligently or carelessly.
15. fiil To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.

    “When the parliament had finished the war , they reduced and slighted most of the inland garrison”

16. fiil To make even or level.

    “After your ground is sowne and harrowed, you shall then clotte it, sleight it, and smooth it.”

17. fiil To throw heedlessly.

    “The rogue slighted me into the river.”

18. isim The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.

    “Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.”

19. isim Sleight.

    “For till that stownd could never wight him harme, By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme.”

20. özel isim A surname from Middle English.