Definition of slender

"slender" in the adjective sense

1. slender, slight, slim, svelte

being of delicate or slender build

"she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris

"a slim girl with straight blonde hair"

"watched her slight figure cross the street"

2. slender, thin

very narrow

"a thin line across the page"

3. slender

having little width in proportion to the length or height

"a slender pole"

4. slender, slim

small in quantity

"slender wages"

"a slim chance of winning"

"a small surplus"

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Quotations for slender

Long and slender, like a cat's elbow. [ Proverb ]

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. [ John Webster ]

He that lives on hope has but a slender diet. [ Proverb ]

Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. [ Proverb ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green. [ E. B. Browning ]

As slender in the middle, as a cow in the waist. [ Proverb ]

The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky. [ Hood ]

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon. [ Sterne ]

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]

slender in Scrabble®

The word slender is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters slender:

SLENDER
(82 = 32 + 50)
LENDERS
(82 = 32 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

lenders, slender

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word slender

SLENDER
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SLENDER
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SLENDER
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In slender

SLENDER
(82 = 32 + 50)
LENDERS
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SLENDER
(80 = 30 + 50)
LENDERS
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slender in Words With Friends™

The word slender is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters slender:

SLENDER
(89 = 54 + 35)
LENDERS
(89 = 54 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

lenders, slender

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word slender

SLENDER
(89 = 54 + 35)
SLENDER
(83 = 48 + 35)
SLENDER
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SLENDER
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SLENDER
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In slender

SLENDER
(89 = 54 + 35)
LENDERS
(89 = 54 + 35)
SLENDER
(83 = 48 + 35)
LENDERS
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Words containing the sequence slender

Words with slender in them (1 word)

Words that end with slender (1 word)

Word Growth involving slender

Shorter words in slender

en end lend lender

Longer words containing slender

slenderbladed

slenderer

slenderest

slenderise slenderised

slenderise slenderises

slenderising

slenderize slenderized

slenderize slenderizes

slenderizing

slenderly

slenderness